Woodhouse A.C. Israel Cocoa Ltd S.A. v Nigerian Produce Marketing Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | The Lord Chancellor,Viscount Dilhorne,Lord Pearson,Lord Cross of Chelsea,Lord Salmon |
| Judgment Date | 19 April 1972 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1972] UKHL J0419-2 |
| Date | 19 April 1972 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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Baird Textile Holdings Ltd v Marks & Spencer Plc
...had to be sufficiently certain and the alleged obligation was not. (Woodhouse AC Israel Cocoa Ltd v Nigeria Produce Marketing Co LtdELR[1972] AC 741applied.) 5. Furthermore an estoppel by convention could not create a cause of action. (Amalgamated Investment & Property Co Ltd v Texas Commer......
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Rudhra Minerals Pte Ltd v MRI Trading Pte Ltd
...Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher (1988) 164 CLR 387 (refd) Woodhouse AC Israel Cocoa Ltd SA v Nigerian Produce Marketing Co Ltd [1972] AC 741 (folld) Contract—Formation—Certainty of terms—Whether contract certain and complete—Whether failure to agree on unsettled terms rendering cont......
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Ennia General Insurance Company Ltd Appellant v J. Astaphan & Company (1970) Ltd Respondent [ECSC]
...at trials in civil cases by R.E. Kingsford. In addition, Counsel submitted (using the phrase of Lord Salmon in WOODHOUSE A.C. ISRAEL COCOA SA. v. NIGERIAN PRODUCE MARKETING CO. (1927) A.C. 741) that the correspondence could not "assume the qualities of a chameleon" and thus be attributed wi......
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3 books & journal articles
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Proprietary Estoppel and Responsibility for Omissions
...andRemedies 45).66 On the issue of ambiguous representations see Woodhouse AC Israel Cocoa Ltd SA vNigerian ProduceMarketing Co Ltd [1972] AC 741, HL. The courts make every effort not to allow R to inferfavourable conclusions from O’s silence where a similarly reasonable explanation, which ......
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Contract as Promise: The Role of Promising in the Law of Contract. An Historical Account
...“may need to be reviewed and reduced to a coherent body of doctrine by the courts”.177 177Woodhouse AC Israel Coco Ltd v Nigerian Produce [1972] AC 741 at 758. Clarification may still be some way off: see Baird Textile Holdings v Marks & Spencer Plc [2002] 1 All ER (Comm) 737 at [49]. In ma......
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WAGE CUTS AND THE LAW IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA
...Sdn Bhd v Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank Bhd, [1995] 3 MLJ 331. 17 Woodhouse AC Israel Cocoa Ltd SA v Nigerian Produce Marketing Co Ltd, [1972] AC 741. 18 Per Lord Denning in D & C Builders Ltd v Rees, [1966] 2 QB 617 at 625. 19 Per Robert Goff J in The Post Chaser, [1982] 1 ALL ER 19 at 27. ......