Waddell v Blockey

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1878
Date1878
CourtCourt of Appeal
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20 cases
  • Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG v Archer Daniels Midland Co and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 1 November 2006
    ...to restore, but only the difference between the price he gave and the real value at the time he bought. 83 The case of Waddell v Blockey (1879) 4 QBD 678 is also instructive. In that case, the defendant represented to one Lutscher that Indian rupee paper would be a profitable investment. Up......
  • Hodgkinson v. Simms et al., (1994) 49 B.C.A.C. 1 (SCC)
    • Canada
    • Canada (Federal) Supreme Court (Canada)
    • 30 September 1994
    ...83]. K.R.M. Construction Ltd. v. British Columbia Railway Co. (1982), 40 B.C.L.R. 1 (C.A.), refd to. [para. 84]. Waddell v. Blockey (1879), 4 Q.B.D. 678 (C.A.), refd to. [para. Huddleston v. Herman & MacLean (1981), 640 F.2d 534 (5th Cir.), affd. in part (1983), 459 U.S. 375, refd to. [......
  • Smith New Court Securities Ltd v Scrimgeour Vickers (Asset Management) Ltd and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 November 1996
    ...century, usually in relation to shares purchased in reliance on a fraudulent prospectus: see Twycross v. Grant (1877) 2 C.P.D. 469; Waddell v. Blockey (1879) 4 Q.B.D. 678; Peek v. Derry (1887) 37 Ch.D. 541 and subsequently treated as settled law by the Court of Appeal in McConnel v. Wright ......
  • Blue Circle Industries Plc v Ministry of Defence
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 June 1998
    ...which he submitted showed that the judge had adopted the correct approach when he decided that the chain of causation ended in 1994. In Waddell v Blockley [1879] 4 QBD 678, the defendant sold paper upon the basis of false representations. After purchase, the price fell rapidly, but the plai......
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  • Damages
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Remedies
    • 4 August 2020
    ...of this case, see JD McCamus, “Prometheus Unbound: Fiduciary Obligation in the Supreme Court of Canada” (1997) 28 Can Bus LJ 107. 113 (1879), 4 QBD 678 (CA) [ Waddell ]. THE LAW OF CONTR ACTS 1010 The defendant sold the plaintiff his own rupee paper, fraudulently representing that it was th......

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