Tool Metal Manufacturing Company Ltd v Tungsten Electric Company Ltd
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judge | Viscount Simonds,Lord Oaksey,Lord Tucker,Lord Cohen |
Judgment Date | 16 June 1955 |
Judgment citation (vLex) | [1955] UKHL J0616-1 |
Court | House of Lords |
Docket Number | Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/JU/4/3/1034 |
Date | 16 June 1955 |
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2 firm's commentaries
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Complex Commercial Litigation Law Review – England and Wales
...Although two Supreme Court decisions in 201721 suggest that all of these 18 Tool Metal Manufacturing Co v. Tungsten Electric Co [1955] 1 WLR 761.19 Arnold v. Britton [2015] UKSC 36.20 Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v. West Bromwich Building Society [1997] UKHL 28, Chartbrook Ltd v. Persi......
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Complex Commercial Litigation Law Review - Fifth Edition - England & Wales
...Although two Supreme Court decisions in 201721 suggest that all of these 18 Tool Metal Manufacturing Co v. Tungsten Electric Co [1955] 1 WLR 761.19 Arnold v. Britton [2015] UKSC 36.20 Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v. West Bromwich Building Society [1997] UKHL 28, Chartbrook Ltd v. Persi......
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Waiver and Promissory Estoppel
...premises, it would be necessary for the promisee to initiate a claim. 44 Tool Metal Manufacturing Co Ltd v Tungsten Electric Co Ltd , [1955] 1 WLR 761 (HL). THE L AW OF CONTR ACTS 316 which the lapse notice would be effective, the insurer assuming that it was effective as of its own date. 4......
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DEMYSTIFYING THE RIGHT OF ELECTION IN CONTRACT LAW
...elects, instead of rescinds, to keep the contract alive and claim damages. 136 Tool Metal Manufacturing Co Ld v Tungsten Electric Co Ld [1955] 1 WLR 761 at 764; The Uhenbels[1986] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 294 at 298; The Happy Day, supra n 18,; in The Kanchenjunga, supra n 2, at 399, Lord Goff stresse......
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Waiver and Promissory Estoppel
...it would be necessary for the promisee to initiate a claim. 43 Tool Metal Manufacturing Co. Ltd. v. Tungsten Electric Co. Ltd. , [1955] 1 W.L.R. 761 (H.L.). 44 Saskatchewan River Bungalows Ltd. v. Maritime Life Assurance Co. (1992), 127 A.R. 43 (C.A.), rev’d [1994] 2 S.C.R. 490. Though the ......
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Contract as Promise: The Role of Promising in the Law of Contract. An Historical Account
...Even when used as a defence rights are only suspended and not extinguished.181 181Tool Metal Manufacturing Co v Tungsten Electric Co Ltd [1955] 1 WLR 761. As such promissory estoppel is only a partial answer to Foakes v Beer. Collier v Wright [2008] 1 WLR 643 challenges this orthodoxy: see ......