Vendor and purchaser
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Jawara v Gambia Airways
Sale of property — Owners requesting lawyer to act on their behalf — Memorandum setting out terms to that effect — Lawyer concluding sale after consultation — Owners then purporting…
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Webb v Webb
Property situated in France — Father providing purchase price — Sale transaction taking place in France — Father transferring property into name of son — Whether property held in trust…
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Toplis v Green
Effect of contract and transfer — Plan — Inaccurate plan attached to transfer — Dispute over strip of land adjacent to property sold — Vendor successfully bringing claim in trespass…
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Little Hayes Nursing Home Ltd v Marshall
Option to purchase freehold — Valuation of property on exercise of option — Dispute on valuation — High Court making declarations as to method of valuation
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Emile Elias & Co Ltd v Pine Groves Ltd
Sale of land — Restrictive covenants — Building plots sold to different purchasers — Whether covenants mutually enforceable under building scheme — Privy Council upholding decisions of courts in Trinidad…
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Barclays Bank plc v Weeks Legg & Dean
Purchase of land — Bank loan — Solicitors acting for purchaser — Undertaking to bank to use moneys only to acquire “good marketable title” — Right of way over property…
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McCausland and another v Duncan Lawrie Ltd and another
Contract for sale of land — Completion — Subsequent variation by agreement for completion date — Defendant vendors maintaining that variation valid — Judgment for defendants — Appeal allowed
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Smith v Drumm and others
Purchaser buying property — Completion before answering of pre-contractual inquiries — Gas remaining unconnected — Electricity being disconnected due to illegal fuse box — Whether vendor had made misrepresentations in…
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Safe Haven Investments Inc v Springbok Ltd
Leasehold interest — Sale agreed — Deposit paid — Purchaser alleging misrepresentation concerning sublease — Purported rescission of contract — Vendor alleging repudiation by purchaser — Whether vendor entitled to…
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William Sindall plc v Cambridgeshire County Council
Sale of land — Easement — Mistake — Property development — Sewer found on land — Purchaser seeking to rescind contract for sale — Judge holding that sale could be…
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Morrall and another v Krause and another
Written contract — Defendants buying freehold property and agreeing to grant plaintiffs 999-year lease of ground-floor flat — Plaintiffs seeking specific performance — Defendants contending for oral variation to written…
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R v Trent Regional Health Authority and another, ex parte Westerman Ltd and another
Disposal of land by regional health authority — Land acquired by health authority under threat of compulsion — Land formerly in possession of two owners — Owners forming consortium for…