Tootal Clothing Ltd v Guinea Properties Management Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 08 June 1992 |
| Date | 08 June 1992 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
Court of Appeal
Landlord and tenant - Law of Property Act - executory relevance only
Section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, which superseded section 40 of the Law of Property Act 1925, dealt with the circumstances in which a valid or enforceable contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land could come into existence.
Accordingly it was of relevance only to executory contracts and not to contracts already completed.
The Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Parker, Lord Justice Scott and Mr Justice Boreham) so held on June 4 allowing the appeal of Tootal Clothing Ltd against the judgment of Mr Justice Douglas Brown on July 12, 1991, in the Queen's Bench Division on a preliminary issue that an agreement, described as supplemental to the main agreement between the parties for the grant of a lease, was subject to section 2 of the 1989 Act.
LORD JUSTICE SCOTT said that the parties having agreed all the terms for the grant of a 25-year lease had duly completed that agreement so that it ceased to be an executory contract and it was irrelevant whether...
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