Steedman v Drinkle

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1915
Year1915
Date1915
CourtPrivy Council
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83 cases
  • Lombard North Central Plc v Butterworth
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 1986
    ...which would not otherwise be so. 33 I am not prepared to take this step. 34 It remains to mention two reported cases. The first is Steedman v. Dunkle (1916) Appeal Cases 275. Land in Canada was purchased under an agreement, whereby the price was payable by one initial payment followed by an......
  • Lyra Sewer Collazo Appellant v Percival Williams Respondent
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Court of Appeal (British Virgin Islands)
    • 22 September 2008
    ...made time of the essence, the courts would not grant the remedy of specific performance where this condition has not been met. Steedman v Drinkle [1916] 1 AC 275 ,279 and Brickles v Snell [1916] 2 AC 599 applied (5) The courts will not imply a term into a contract for sale of land that c......
  • Union Eagle Ltd v Golden Achievement Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 3 February 1997
    ...unwilling to grant relief by way of specific performance against breach of an essential condition as to time. In Steedman v DrinkleELR ([1916] 1 AC 275, 279) Viscount Haldane had said: "Courts of equity, which look at the substance as distinguished from the letter of agreements, no doubt ex......
  • Starside Properties Ltd v Mustapha
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 February 1974
    ...of relief which was "further" in the sense of being over and above and different from an extension of time, and the treatment of Steedman -v- Drinkle (1916 1 A.C. p. 275), which immediately follows the above quotation from Lord Justice Homer's Judgment, appears to demonstrate that this is ......
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  • UNDUE INFLUENCE, UNCONSCIONABILITY AND GOOD FAITH
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1996, December 1996
    • 1 December 1996
    ...Country Club[1992] 2 SLR 900 (Hwang JC), Yang Min Jian v Koh Lian Chye (unreported, 13 Jun 1996, Prakash J). 101 Steedman v Drinkle [1916] 1 AC 275, Brickles v Snell[1916] 2 AC 599. This was once also the approach in England, see Lord Wilberforce in Shiloh Spinners v Harding[1973] AC 691 at......

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