Waugh v Morris

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of the Queen's Bench
Year1865
Date1865

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32 cases
  • Allan (J. M.) (Merchandising) Ltd v Cloke
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 5 March 1963
    ...as illegal unless they had a "wicked intention to break the law". He relied on the well known Judgment of Mr Justice Blackburn in Waugh v. Morris, Law Reports, 8 Qaeen's Bench, p. 202, particularly at p,208. Now I desire to say that where two people together have the common design to use a ......
  • Allan (J. M.) (Merchandising) Ltd v Cloke
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 5 March 1963
    ...as illegal unless they had a "wicked intention to break the law". He relied on the well known Judgment of Mr Justice Blackburn in Waugh v. Morris, Law Reports, 8 Qaeen's Bench, p. 202, particularly at p,208. Now I desire to say that where two people together have the common design to use a ......
  • Nova Management Pte Ltd v Amara Hotel Properties Pte Ltd and Another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 24 December 1992
    ... ... But as Blackburn J put it in Waugh v Morris [1873] 8 LR QB 202 at p 208: ` ... where a contract is to do a thing which cannot be performed without a violation of the law it is void, ... ...
  • Sasfin (Pty) Ltd v Beukes
    • South Africa
    • 19 September 1988
    ...at 726 - 7; Warren v Pirie (Pty) Ltd 1959 (1) SA 419 (E); Barclays National Bank Ltd v Brownlee 1981 (3) SA 579 (D) I ; Waugh v Morris (1873) LR 8 QB 202; Reynolds v Kinsey 1959 (4) SA 50 (FC); Claassen v African Batignolles Constructions (Pty) Ltd 1954 (1) SA 552 (O); Mahomed Abdullah v Le......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Illegality
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...of an authority in which the unlawful conduct was clearly unintentional and the agreement was enforced, see Waugh v Morris (1873), LR 8 QB 202 (QB). See also, Anglo Petroleum Ltd v TFB (Mortgages) Ltd , [2007] EWCA Civ 456 (CA) at paras 60–63, Lord Toulson. 24 ParkingEye , above note 21 at ......
  • Preliminary Sections
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1971 Preliminary Sections
    • 14 November 2022
    ...of Nigeria, Suit No. SC/13 1 / 6 8, unreported. ........................................................... 120 Waugh v. Morris, (1873) L.R. 8 Q.B. 202. .................................................... 294 Wilson v. Lloyd (1873) L.R. 16 Eq.60. .................................................