Universal Cargo Carriers Corporation v Citati (No. 2)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
Year1957
Date1957

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  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2000, December 2000
    • 1 December 2000
    ...(see generally at 185—189, and applying the seminal decision of Devlin J (as he then was) in Universal Cargo Carriers Corp v Citati[1957] 2 QB 401; see, further, Stannard, “Frustrating Delay”(1983) 46 MLR 738). Of interest, in the present writer”s view, is the possible linkage (if any), on ......
  • Anticipatory Repudiation
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Performance and Breach
    • 4 August 2020
    ...Pugsley v Fowler (1909), 4 NB Eq 122 at 136–37 (SC). See also Heyman , above note 9 at 361. 12 Universal Cargo Carriers Corp v Citati , [1957] 2 QB 401, aff’d on other grounds [1957] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 191 (CA) [ Universal Cargo Carriers Corp v Citati ]. 13 Ibid at 436 (QB). 14 See Sawyer v Prin......
  • Analysis
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , June - September 2009
    • 1 May 2009
    ...See Synge v Synge [1894] 1 QB 466; Omnium d'Enterprise v Sutherland [1919] 1 KB 618; Universal Cargo Carriers Corp v Citati (No 1) [1957] 2 QB 401; W M Gloag, The Law of Contract, 2nd edn (1929) 600-601; H Beale (ed), Chitty on Contracts, 29th edn (2004) paras 24-028-24-030; G H Treitel, Th......
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...to fulfil his part of the contract …”’ (paraphrasing the words of Devlin J in the case of Universal Cargo Carriers Corporation v Citati[1957] 2 All ER 70); it entailed more than just a ‘“mere refusal or omission of one of the contracting parties to do something which he ought to do” under t......
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