Tennants (Lancashire) Ltd v Wilson (C. S.) & Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1917 |
| Date | 1917 |
| Year | 1917 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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38 cases
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Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Agostino Bertani, Cape Rodney, Queen City, Riverton)
...no authority against them. On this aspect of the case I think considerable assistance is to be derived from ( Tennants v. Wilson 1917 Appeal Cases, page 495), the facts of which are sufficiently set out in the judgment of Mr. Justice McNair. It is true that in that case the dispute was betw......
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The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd
...access. “Prevention” is to be contrasted with and is not synonymous with “hindrance”. In Tennants (Lancashire) Ltd v CS Wilson & Co Ltd [1917] AC 495, Lord Atkinson at 518 defined the distinction between prevention and hindrance in these terms: ““Preventing” delivery means, in my view, rend......
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11 firm's commentaries
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Force Majeure Clauses In Construction Contracts
...D.L.R. (3d) 409 (S.C.C.) [Atlantic Paper]. 2 Atlantic Paper, ibid.; Tennants (Lancashire) Limited v. C. S. Wilson & Company Limited [1917] A.C. 495 (H.L.); Brauer & Co. Ltd. v. James Clark (Rush Materials), Ltd., [1952] 2 All E.R. 497 (C.A.); Re: Tom Jones & Sons Ltd. v. The Que......
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COVID-19: Force Majeure under PRC, HK SAR and English law
...cataclysmic downward spiral of the world’s financialmarkets” was not force majeure.[13] See Tennants (Lancashire) Ltd v CS Wilson & Co [1917] AC 495, 510.[14] ‘The Eugenia’ [1964] 2 QB 226, CA; Wong Lai-ying v Chinachem Investment Co Ltd[1980] HKLR 1.[15] Denny Mott & Dickson Ltd v James B ......
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Force Majeure And Frustration
..."prevented", "hindered" or "delayed" the party from performing under the contract (see Tennants (Lancashire) Ltd v G.S. Wilson & Co. Ltd [1917] AC 495 where the delivery of was prevented by the First World War). The actual wording used must be carefully analyzed. That no reasonable steps ar......
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Paris Energy Series No. 9: Expecting the Unexpected: The Force Majeure Clause
...by force majeure may of course be subject to different interpretations. See, e.g., Tennants (Lancashire) Ltd. v. C.S. Wilson & Co. Ltd. [1917] A.C. 495. 44 See, e.g., ICC Force Majeure Clause 2003, supra note 6, at art. 1 (requiring a party to prove “(a) that its failure to perform was caus......
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3 books & journal articles
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Australia
...127; Building Workers’ Indus. Union of Austl. v. Odco Pty. (1991) 29 F.C.R. 104. 207. Tenants (Lancashire) Ltd. v. C.S. Wilson & Co. [1917] A.C. 495. 208. Australian Builders Labourers Federated Union of Workers, 42 F.C.R. 452. 209. (1991) 172 C.L.R. 32. 210. Id. at 40. This reasoning was a......
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Gap Filling to Address Changed Circumstances in Contract Law – When It Comes to Losses and Gains, Sharing Is the Fair Solution
...require that a p arty can no longer be held b ound to a contract in unmodif ied form45 Tennants (Lan cashire) Ltd v CS Wilson & Co Ltd [1917] AC 495 510; British Movietone ws Ltd v London and Distri ct Cinemas Ltd [1952] AC 166 185; Treitel Frustration and For ce Majeure 290-29146 Van der M......
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CHAPTER 15 REOPENING PRICE PROVISIONS UNDER LONG-TERM GAS SUPPLY AGREEMENTS
...relieve a party on the grounds of force majeure or frustration. I take as an example Tennants Lancashire Limited v Wilson CS & Co. Ltd. (1917) AC 495 where Lord Lorburn observed: "The argument that a man can be excused from performance of his contract when it becomes "commercially impossibl......