Smith-Bird v Blower
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1939 |
| Date | 1939 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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12 cases
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Davies v Sweet
...that case so interpreted or in Lovesy v. Palmer anything to justify the distinction stated in the passage quoted from the Judgment in Smith-Bird v. Blower. Those cases decide that to satisfy the statute the agreement or memorandum must name or identify two parties who are contractually boun......
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Balabel v Air India
...the privilege, but Lord Justice Brett (at page 683) and Lord Justice Cotton (at pages 684 and 685) refer only to legal advice. 45 In Smith-Bird v. Blower [1939] 2 A.E.R. 406 the defendant agreed to sell property to an agent of the plaintiff's and gave him a note to that effect. The agent pr......
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Meridian Investment Corporation et Al v Jamaica Export Credit Insurance Corporation et Al
...answer to an inquiry made by the solicitor.” 49 In short not everything written to or by the legal adviser is entitled to privilege: Smith Bird v Blower [1939] 2 All E.R. 406. Letter written to solicitor not to obtain legal advice but to inform him of a fact. 50 To be protected the communic......
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Lee Christina v Lee Eunice and another (executors of the estate of Lee Teck Soon)
... ... Notwithstanding that it was a note addressed to her solicitors, it is a sufficient memorandum evidencing the sale. In Smith-Bird v Blower , the defendant offered two houses for sale by auction but the reserve price was not reached. Later the plaintiffs authorized their ... ...
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Agency
...is the clear and unequivocal election by the other contracting party to look to the principal alone. See: Skith – Bird v. Blower (1939) 2 All E.R. 406 as per Luxmore L.J. Also, in the words of Lord Reid, in Basma v. Weekes 1950 A.C. 441: -“an agent who contracts in his own name does not cea......