Sassoon (E. D.) & Company v Western Assurance Company

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date17 May 1912
Date17 May 1912
CourtPrivy Council

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20 cases
  • Seashore Marine SA v Phoenix Assurance Plc [QBD (Comm)]
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 16 May 2001
    ...In the context of that clause the phrase “peril insured against” refers to the perils set out in cl. 6 of the ITCSassoon (E D) & Co v Western Assurance CoELR [1912] AC 561. Lloyd (J J) Instruments Ltd v Northern Star Insurance Co Ltd (“The Miss Jay Jay”)UNK [1987] 1 Ll Rep 32. Mountain v Wh......
  • Versloot Dredging BV and Another v HDI Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 14 June 2013
    ...and it excludes cases where the casualty is inevitable, as where there is a rotten hulk or "debilitated" vessel: E.D. Sassoon & Co v Western Assurance Company [1912] AC 561. 33 I shall have to return to the concepts of fortuity and debilitated vessels in due course. It is important to note ......
  • Global Process Systems Inc. and Another v Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad (The "Cendor MOPU")
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 February 2011
    ...there is no reason to suppose that it bears a different meaning from that in section 39: E D Sassoon & Co v Western Assurance Co [1912] AC 561. 42 Under the 1906 Act therefore, the fact that the goods are not reasonably fit in all respects to encounter the ordinary perils of the seas of......
  • Global Process Systems Inc. and Another v Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad (The "Cendor MOPU")
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 December 2009
    ... ... International Limited A Merrill Communications Company 165 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2DY Tel No: 020 7404 1400, ... Mackinnon , [1896] 2 Q.B., 455 ; Sassoon v. Western Assurance Co ... [1912] A.C ... 561 ... ...
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