Vendor and purchaser
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Lake v Bayliss and another
A vendor who sells to a third party holds the purchase price as trustee for the original purchaser, who can accordingly trace it and recover it–Dicta concerning the position of…
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Pine View Developments Ltd v Napthan and others
Plot of land for development held in three parts–Three contracts in almost identical terms made by developers with the vendors–Right of rescission held to be available to vendors when planning…
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Strutt v Whitnell
Vendor fails to give vacant possession of house with sitting tenant–Purchaser need not mitigate damage by accepting offer to repurchase made by vendor–Entitled to keep house and sue for difference…
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Sorrell and another v Finch
‘Downright rogue’ sets up in estate agency and accepts numerous deposits on the same property–Court bound by previous decisions to penalise vendor on rogue’s default–Majority unwilling to allow representations made…
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Walters and others v Roberts
Application by purchaser for summary judgment for specific performance under Order 86 — Incidental agricultural holdings point determined — Case with a number of ‘bizarre features’ including a purchaser under…
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Ferrishurst Ltd v Wallcite Ltd
Option to purchase — Land Registration Act 1925 — Unregistered option — Overriding interest — Actual occupation — Whether occupier must be in occupation of whole of land comprised in…
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McKay v Turner and another
Contract of sale refers to ‘the general conditions printed within’ but in fact includes none–Purchaser’s notice to complete upheld though expressed to be given under condition 19 of Law Society’s…
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Weeds v Blaney and another
Vendor fences off part of site for sale, but his solicitors mistakenly refer in contract to whole of his registered title–Purchaser held to have understood that part only was for…
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Walford and others v Miles and another
Sales of land — Oral agreement — Collateral ‘lock-out’ agreement — Whether implied term to negotiate in good faith — Whether agreement enforceable
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Faruqi v English Real Estates Ltd
Contract for the sale of land–Vendor and purchaser summons–Conditions of sale at auction–Special condition that property was sold ‘subject to entries on the registers of title’–One of the general conditions…
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Johnson and another v Agnew
Vendor and purchaser of land–Position when order of specific performance is not implemented by purchaser–Whether, if vendor then accepts this failure as a repudiation of the contract of sale, applies…
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Laimond Property Investment Co Ltd v Arlington Park Mansions Ltd
Vendor and purchaser — Sale of freehold of blocks of flats by landlords to a company formed by lessees of most of the flats as a vehicle for the purchase…