Trego and Another v Hunt

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date05 December 1895
Judgment citation (vLex)[1895] UKHL J1205-2
CourtHouse of Lords
Date05 December 1895
Trego and Another
and
Hunt.

[1895] UKHL J1205-2

House of Lords

1

After hearing Counsel as well on Tuesday the 25th, as Thursday the 27th, and Friday the 28th days of June last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Anna Trego, Widow, and William Wilson Smith, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 20th of February 1895, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in...

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    ...the general class of those for which the plaintiff was at the date of the dissolution of the said partnership an agent. Trego v. Hunt,ELR [1896] A. C. 7, applied. Gargan v. Ruttle JOHN M. GARGAN, Trading as J. M. GARGAN & Co. Plaintiff and WILLIAM RUTTLE Defendant. Partnership - Dissolution......
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    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
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    ... ... , being "the reputation and connection… which may have been built up by years of honest work or gained by lavish expenditure of money " see Trego v Hunt [1896] AC 7 at 24 per Lord Macnaghten. v) The two questions for the Court are therefore: (i) What are the interests which it is ... ...
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    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
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    ...which may be one of the most important assets of the business. But goodwill in that sense must have the meaning put on that word in Trego v Hunt [1896] A.C.7. See especially per Lord Herschell at 17–18 and per Lord MacNaghton at page 24. It cannot mean some airy-fairy general reputation in ......
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  • Restraints of trade in commercial documents must be reasonable
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 26 Octubre 2021
    ...of the restraint has a legitimate interest to protect, analogous to goodwill, as something which adds value to the business: Trego v Hunt [1896] AC 7; & Co's Margarine Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners (1901) AC 217; Box v The Commissioner of Taxation (1952) 86 CLR 387; [1952] HCA 61; Fede......
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    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 26 Octubre 2021
    ...of the restraint has a legitimate interest to protect, analogous to goodwill, as something which adds value to the business: Trego v Hunt [1896] AC 7; & Co's Margarine Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners (1901) AC 217; Box v The Commissioner of Taxation (1952) 86 CLR 387; [1952] HCA 61; Fede......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Partnership and LLP Law - 2nd edition Contents
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    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Partnership and LLP Law - 2nd edition Contents
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    ...which a goodwill can be attached? It seems quite appropriate therefore to refer to how Lord Herschell defined goodwill in Trego v. Hunt (1896) A.C. 7 at 17-18. He said: - "It is the connection thus formed, together with the circumstances, whether of habit or otherwise, which tends to make i......