Smeaton Hanscomb & Company Ltd v Sassoon I. Setty, Son & Company (No. 2)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1953
Year1953
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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  • Penguin Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd v Titan Logistics (S) Pte Ltd (Pioneer Offshore Enterprises Pte Ltd, Third Party)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 25 October 1996
    ...the cloak of a general exemption clause: see The Cap Palos. [Emphasis mine.] Smeaton Hanscomb & Co Ltd v Setty (Sassoon I) Son & Co [1953] 2 All ER 1471 concerned a contract for the sale of mahogany logs. The contract had a limitation clause which provided that `any claim must be made withi......
  • Carter (John) (Fine Worsteds) Ltd v Hanson Haulage (Leeds) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 14 December 1964
    ...to which the clause is admittedly designed and apt to apply. 72 In Smeaton Hanscomb & Co. Ltd. v. Sassoon I. Setty, Son & Co., (1953) 1 W. L. R. 1468 at p. 1470, Mr. Justice Devlin said: "I do not think that what is a fundamental term has ever been "closely defined. It must be something, I......
  • Karsales (Harrow) Ltd v Wallis
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 12 June 1956
    ...v. Railway Executive 1951 2 King's Bench, page 682) and ( Smeaton Hanecomb & Company v. Sassoon I. Setty son & Company 1953 2 All EnglandReports, page 1468), and the recent case in this Court of ( J. Spurling Limited v. Bradshaw 1956 1 Weekly Law Reports, page 461), and the cases there ment......
  • Pepys v London Transport Executive
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 November 1974
    ...as my Lord has said, went too far. In that case this Court did not have its attention drawn to the decision in Smeaton Hanscomb & Co. Ltd. v. Sassoon I. Setty Son & Co. (No. 2) (1953) 1 W.L.R. 1481, and Lewis v. Haverfordwest Rural District Council (1953) 1 W.L.R. 1486, respectively decided......
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