Williams Brothers v Agius (Ed. T.)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Year | 1914 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 1914 |
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52 cases
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Linden Gardens Trust Ltd v Lenesta Sludge Disposals Ltd and Others ; St Martins Property Corporation Ltd and Another v Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd (formerly Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons Ltd)
...on the goods to a third party without loss: Slater v. Hoyle & Smith Limited [1920] 2 K.B. 11; see also as to non-delivery Williams Brothers v. Ed. T. Agius Limited [1914] A.C. 510. In those cases the judgments contained no consideration of the person in whom the property in the goods was ......
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Bence Graphics International Ltd v Fasson UK Ltd
...the relevance of the onward sale price in the latter case, was approved and re-stated by Lord Dunedin in the House of Lords in Williams Bros. v. Ed. T. Agius Ltd [1914] A.C. 510, a case of non-delivery. He said, at 522: "… It is certain that Lord Atkinson, who delivered the judgment in that......
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Transfield Shipping Inc. v Mercator Shipping Inc. (The Achilleas)
...would probably have been defeated on account of their failure to mitigate by doing so (as happened to the unsuccessful buyers in Williams Bros v Ed.T. Agius Ltd [1914] A.C. 510). In this respect the Owners were in an analogous position. Whilst it is true that there is a market rate for the ......
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Bear Stearns Bank Plc v Forum Global Equity Ltd
...the plaintiff likes it or not”, Biggin v Permalite, loc cit, at p.436 (and see Rodocanachi v Milburn, (1886) 18 QBD 67 at p.78, Williams Bros v Ed. T Agius Ltd., [1914] AC 510 at p.522 and Czernikow (C) v Koufos Ltd., [1969] 1 AC 350 at p.416E-F). However it does not suffice to bring a sub......
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4 books & journal articles
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Contract Law
...rejected Unity's submission and followed the position set out in the House of Lords decision in Williams Brothers v Ed T Agius, Limited[1914] AC 510. In particular, reliance was placed on Lord Dunedin's speech (at pp 522–523): [W]hen there is no delivery of the goods the position is quite a......
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Clark v. Macourt: defective sperm and performance substitutes in the High Court of Australia.
...Shaw, Mersey and Robson). As noted earlier, equivalent legislation operates in Australia: see above n 54. (105) [1920] 2 KB 11. (106) [1914] AC 510. See also Stroms Bruks AB v Hutchinson [1905] AC 515, 526 (Lord Macnaghten). (107) [1998] QB 87. (108) See Treitel, above n 18 (expressing a pr......
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SUBSTITUTIVE DAMAGES AND MITIGATION IN CONTRACT LAW
...(with contributions by Martin Spencer & Julian Picton), McGregor on Damages (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 19th Ed, 2016) at para 9–172. 86[1914] AC 510. 87 Harvey McGregor (with contributions by Martin Spencer & Julian Picton), McGregor on Damages (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 19th Ed, 2016) at par......
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Claims for the value of the lost contractual performance
...that is within the limits imposed by the applicable principles of ‘remoteness’ and ‘mitigation’. 38See Williams Bros v ET Agius Ltd [1914] AC 510 (HL) for a case of non-delivery and Slater (n 16) for a case of defective delivery. 39See Re (R & H) Hall Ltd and Pim (WH) (Jnr) and Co’s Arbitra......