Re Stirrup's Contract

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Year1961
Date1961

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  • EDWARD LEE & Company Ltd v N1 PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS Ltd
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 12 November 2012
    ...[2003] EWHC 1994 (Ch), [2004] Ch 142; Lord Ranelagh v Melton (1864) 2 Drew & Sm 278; Rye v Rye [1962] AC 496; Stirrup's Contract, In re [1961] 1 WLR 449; Street v Mountford [1985] AC 809; United Scientific v Burnley Council [1978] AC 904 and Weston v Collins (1865) 12 LT 4 considered - Land......
  • PW & Company v Milton Gate Investments Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 8 August 2003
    ...The law on this topic was discussed and applied in characteristically authoritative fashion by Wilberforce J in In re Stirrup's Contract [1961] 1 WLR 449 at 452 to 453. At 453, he quoted Lord Mansfield CJ in Edwards -v- Bail (1777) 2 Cowp. 597 at 600 as saying: "The rules laid down in respe......
  • Harbour Estates Ltd v HSBC Bank Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 15 July 2004
    ...operate not only to convey everything that the person could convey, but also to appoint everything he could appoint." 25 In re Stirrup's Contract [1961] 1 WLR 449 Wilberforce J, dealing with a case where the showing of a good title depended on an assent under seal sufficing where a conveyan......
  • Belitza Marling Sagaray Silva v Replay Destinations (Bahamas) Ltd
    • Bahamas
    • Supreme Court (Bahamas)
    • 10 June 2020
    ...and that he is in a position, without the possibility of dispute or litigation, to pass the fee simple to the purchaser.’ (See Re Stirrup's Contract [1961] 1 All ER 805 at 809, [1961] 1 WLR 449 at 454 per Wilberforce J) Where the title shown is less than perfect, the question is whether t......
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