United Dominions Trust (Commercial) Ltd v Eagle Aircraft Services Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1968
Date1968
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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124 cases
  • Crosstown Music Co 1, LLC v Rive Droite Music Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 November 2010
    ...kind was implied in Reardon Smith Line v Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food [1963] 1 Lloyd's LR 12, United Dominions Trust (Commercial) Ltd v Eagle Aircraft Services Ltd [1968] 1 WLR 74 and Zeeland Navigation Co Ltd v Banque Worms [1995] 1 Lloyd's LR 251. In my judgment, those cases......
  • Siemens Hearing Instruments Ltd v Friends Life Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 April 2014
    ...it is that triggers the promisor's obligation. That is why it is called an option. As Diplock LJ explained in United Dominions Trust (Commercial) Ltd v Eagle Aircraft Services Ltd [1968] 1 WLR 74, 83 this has two consequences: "The first is that there is no room for any inquiry as to whethe......
  • Chi Liung Holdings Sdn Bhd v Attorney General
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 3 May 1993
    ...The following passage from Diplock LJ`s judgment (at p 109) in United Dominions Trust (Commercial) Ltd v Eagle Aircraft Services Ltd [1968] 1 All ER 104[1968] 1 WLR 74 is ... a unilateral contract may never give rise to any obligation on the part of the promisor; it will only do so on the o......
  • Wood Preservation Ltd v Prior
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 November 1968
    ... ... to market in the United Kingdom a particular preparation for wood ... ...
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5 books & journal articles
  • RE-EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUTUAL PROMISES IN CONTRACT LAW.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 2, April 2022
    • 1 April 2022
    ...Cie SA (Lausanne) [1941] 1 All ER 380, 382 (Viscount Caldecote CJ); United Dominions Trust (Commercial) Ltd vEagle Aircraft Services Ltd[1968] 1 WLR 74, 81 (Lord Denning MR); Hyundai Merchant Marine Co Ltd v Karander Maritime CoInc [1996] CLC 749, 753-6 (Mance J) (238) Hyundai (n 237) 754-5......
  • Contract formation
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume I - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...v Glasgow Metro LLP [2009] CSOh 71 at [28], per Lord hodge. 3 See United Dominions Trust (Commercial) Ltd v Eagle Aircraft Services Ltd [1968] 1 WLr 74 at 82–83, per Diplock LJ (cf SAM Business Systems Ltd v Hedley & Co [2002] EWhC 2733 (TCC) at [141], per hhJ Bowsher 46 CONTraCT FOrMaTION ......
  • GIFTS AND CONTRACTS : A COMPARISON WITH QUEBEC CIVIL LAW.
    • Canada
    • University of British Columbia Law Review Vol. 53 No. 3, April 2021
    • 1 April 2021
    ...and "synallagmatic" contract proposed by Lord Diplock. See United Dominions Trust (Commercial) Ltd v Eagle Aircraft Services Ltd, [1968] 1 All ER 104 at 108-10, [1968] 1 WLR 74 (CA). These definitions appear in line with the view of the common law contract suggested here, since the qualific......
  • Plus ca change... The interpretation of new individual employment rights in the Commonwealth Caribbean
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 4-2, December 1994
    • 1 December 1994
    ...West Country Cleaners (Falmouth) Ltd. v. Safy [1966] 1 W.L.R. 1485; United Dominions Trust (Commercial) Ltd. v. Eagle Aircraft Ltd. [1968] 1 W.L.R. 74. 141 For the various U .S. positions on dismissal of the individual employee see generally, J.E. Grenig, "The dismissal of employees in the ......
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