William Cory & Son Ltd v London Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1951
CourtCourt of Appeal
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32 cases
  • Close v Steel Company of Wales Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 2 June 1960
  • Commissioners of Crown Lands v Page
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 2 June 1960
    ... ... Marylebone in London. The terms of the lease were in common form, and need not be recited. They ... Goddard (Chief Justice) and the Court of Appeal in the case of ( William Cory & Sons Limited v. City of London Corporation 1950 volume 2 All ... ...
  • Meridian Communications Ltd v Eircell Ltd
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 5 April 2001
    ...that is necessary to be done on his part for the carrying out of that thing." 511 In William Cory and Son Limited-v-London Corporation 1951, 2 K. B. 476 at page 484 in a passage approved by Keane J. in Massarella-v-Massarella, an unreported Judgment delivered on the 18th July 1980 Lord Asqu......
  • Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC v PSI Energy Holding Company BSC (a Bahraini corporation) and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 6 December 2013
    ...FAD if it was required to do so, since such an implied term would be illegal and contrary to public policy: see by analogy William Cory & Son Ltd v London Corporation [1951] 2 KB 476 at 484 per Asquith LJ. 95 What is more, even if the bona fides of the Bank in that regard could be impugned,......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Frustration
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...[1946] 1 DLR 342 (NSSC). 127 1999 CanLII 6808 (NWTSC). 128 Ibid at para 15 (relying on Kesmet , above note 83). 129 [1951] 1 KB 8, aff’d [1951] 2 KB 476 (CA). F rustration 681 Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of NSW , 130 it was held that the granting of an injunction directing that no constr......
  • Public‐Private Arbitration and the Public Interest under English Law
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 80-1, January 2017
    • 1 January 2017
    ...award are generally private and confidential.157 Aspublic bodies are given their powers on the basis that they are to be exercised152 [1951] 2 KB 476.153 n 144 above, 105-110. See also Dowty Boulton PaulLtd vWolverhampton Corporation [1971] WLR204.154 Section 21(1) provides: ‘An arbitrator o......

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