Q&A Commercial Law 2003-2004 (Questions and Answers) (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)

296 Pages·2003·1.8 MB·English

by  Jo Reddy

Q&A Series

Commercial
Law
THIRD EDITION

Cavendish
Publishing
Limited
London • Sydney • Portland, Oregon

Q&A Series

Commercial
Law
THIRD EDITION
Paul Dobson, LLB, Barrister
Code Administrator for the Direct Selling Association
and

Jo Reddy, LLB, LLM, Barrister

Cavendish
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Limited
London • Sydney • Portland, Oregon
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Dobson, AP (Alan Paul), 1945–
Commercial law—3rd ed—(Q&A series)

1 Commercial law—England
I Title II Reddy, KJ
346.4'2'07

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ISBN 1-85941-740-X

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CONTENTS
Table of Cases vii
Table of Statutes xvii
Table of Statutory Instruments xx
1 General Questions 1
2 Description and Quality 15
3 Passing of Property and Risk 53
4 Nemo Dat Quod Non Habet 71
5 Performance and Remedies 85
6 Making and Cancelling a Credit Agreement 95
7 Default and Termination of Credit Agreements 111
8 Connected Lender Liability 131
9 General Principle s of Agency 141
10 Relationship with Third Parties 169
11 Fob Contracts 201
12 Cif Contracts 233
Index 261
v

TABLE OF CASES
NB: CCLR denotes Consumer Credit Law Reports which were published
until 2000 in Consumer Credit Control by Bennion and Dobson, but are now
published as part of Sweet & Maxwell’s Encyclopedia of Consumer Credit Law.
Agricultores Federados Argentinos v Ampro SA
[1965] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 757 215, 219, 229
Ailsa Craig Fishing v Malvern Fishing [1983] 1 All ER 449 30
Albermarle Supply Co v Hind [1928] 1 KB 307 128
Aldridge v Johnson (1857) 7 E & B 885 62
Aliakmon, The
See Leigh and Sillavan v Aliakmon Shipping Co, The Aliakmon
Allam & Co v Europa Poster Services [1968] 1 All ER 826 144
Alliance and Leicester Building Society v Babbs [1993] CCLR 77 109
Alpha Trading Ltd v Dunnshaw-Patten [1981] QB 290 165, 166
AMB Imballaggi Plastici SRL v Pacflex Ltd
[1999] 2 All ER (Comm) 249 175
Andrews Bros Ltd v Singer & Co Ltd [1934] 1 KB 17 27
Andrews v Hopkinson [1957] 1 QB 229 23, 28, 150
Anglo-African Shipping Co of New York Inc
v J Mortner Ltd [1962] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 610 176
Arcos Ltd v EA Ronaasen & Son [1933] AC 470 38, 230, 249
Armagas v Mundogas [1986] 2 All ER 385 174, 186, 187, 188, 189
Armour v Thyssen [1990] 3 All ER 481 55, 57
Ashington Piggeries v Hill [1972] AC 441 39, 237
Associated Distributors v Hall [1938] 2 KB 83 123
Aswan v Lupdine [1987] 1 WLR 1 34

Attorney General for Hong Kong v Reid [1994] 1 All ER 1 146
Attorney General v Leopold Walford (London) Ltd
(1923) 14 Lloyd’s Rep 359 214
Automotive Financial Services v Henderson [1993] CCLR 55 104
B & P Wholesale Distributors v Marko (1953) unreported 241
Bankers Trust v State Bank of India [1991] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 587 204, 207
Barclays Bank v Quincecare Ltd [1988] FTLR 507 198
Bartlett v Sydney Marcus [1965] 1 WLR 1013 23
Beale v Taylor [1967] 1 WLR 1193 33
Bence Graphics v Fasson UK [1997] 3 WLR 205 211
Bentinck v Cromwell Engineering [1971] 1 QB 324 128
vii
viii Table of Cases
Bernstein v Pamson Motors (Golders Green) Ltd
[1987] 2 All ER 22 25, 36, 91, 210
Biddell Bros v Clemens Horst & Co [1912] AC 18 252, 256
Boardman v Phipps [1966] 3 All ER 721 145, 147, 167, 182
Bolton Partners v Lambert (1889) 41 Ch D 295 170, 173
Bondina Ltd v Rollaway Shower Blinds Ltd [1986] 1 WLR 517 153
Borden v Scottish Timber Products Ltd [1981] Ch 25 58
Boston Deep Sea Fishing and Ice Co v Ansell (1888) 39 Ch D 339 250, 255, 257
Bowes v Shand (1877) 2 App Cas 455 215, 232, 249, 252,
254, 256, 258
Bowmakers v Barnet Instruments [1945] KB 65 114, 118
Bowmakers v Wycombe Motors [1946] KB 505 129
Brandt & Co v Morris & Co [1917] 2 KB 784 217
Branwhite v Worcester Works Finance [1969] 1 AC 532 98
British Airways Board v Taylor [1976] 1 WLR 13 45
British Imex Industries Ltd v Midland Bank Ltd [1958] 1 QB 542 244
Bunge & Co Ltd v Tradax England Ltd [1975] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 235 214, 239
Burrell v Jones (1819) 3 B & Ald 47 148
Burstall v Grimsdale (1906) 11 Com Cas 280 253, 256
Butterworth v Kingsway Motors [1954] 1 WLR 1286 74, 116
Cammell Laird v Manganese Bronze and Brass [1934] AC 402 23
Caparo v Dickman [1990] 2 WLR 358 189, 190
Car and Universal Finance v Caldwell [1965] 1 QB 525 80
Cehave v Bremer, The Hansa Nord [1976] 1 QB 44 25, 39
Central Newbury Car Auctions v Unity Finance [1957] 1 QB 371 76
Chartered Trust v Pitcher [1987] CCLR 71 114
Chaudry v Prabhakar [1988] 3 All ER 718 144, 197
Chubb Cash Ltd v John Crilley & Son [1983] 1 WLR 599 74
City Trust v Levy [1988] 1 WLR 1051 185
Clarkson Booker Ltd v Andjel [1964] 2 QB 775 151
Clough Mill v Martin [1985] 1 WLR 111 55, 57
Coles v Enoch [1939] 3 All ER 327 164
Collen v Wright [1857] 8 E & B 647 150, 154, 190, 191, 199
Colley v Overseas Exporters [1921] 3 KB 302 217
Collins v Associated Greyhound
Racecourses Ltd [1930] 1 Ch 1 149
Cunningham, J and J v Robert A Monroe [1922] 28 Com Cas 42 221
Daun v Simmins (1879) 41 LT 783 184, 195
Davies v Sumner [1984] 1 WLR 130 28
Dawson v Dutfield [1936] 2 All ER 232 50
Table of Cases ix
De Bussche v Alt [1878] 8 Ch D 286 144, 170, 172
Diamond Alkali Export Corp v Fl Bourgeois [1921] 3 KB 443 254, 256
Dimond v Lovell [2000] 2 WLR 1121 106
Director General of Fair Trading
v First National Bank [2000] 2 All ER 759 11
Discount Records Ltd v Barclays Bank [1975] 1 WLR 315 207
Donald H Scott Ltd v Barclays Bank Ltd [1923] 2 KB 1 254
Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 17
Dyster v Randall & Sons [1926] Ch 932 176
Ealing LBC v Taylor [1995] Crim LR 156 44
East v Maurer [1991] 2 All ER 733 35
Edgington v Fitzmaurice (1885) 24 Ch D 459 35
El Amria and the El Minia [1982] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 28 214
Elafi, The
See Karlshamns Olje Fabriker v Eastport
Navigation Corp, The Elafi
Equitable Trust Co of New York
v Dawson Partners Ltd (1927) 27 L1L Rep 49 203, 230, 239
Esso Petroleum v Commissioners
for Customs and Excise [1976] 1 WLR 1 49
European Asian Bank v Punjab
& Sind Bank (No 2) [1983] 1 WLR 642 179
Farrand v Lazarus [2002] 3 All ER 175 (DC) 44
Financings v Baldock [1963] 1 All ER 443 113, 119, 120, 127
Financings v Stimson [1962] 1 WLR 1184 97
First Energy (UK) Ltd v Hungarian

International Bank [1993] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 194 186, 187, 189
Fraser v Furman [1967] 1 WLR 898 171
Frebold and Sturznickel (Trading as Panda OGH)
v Circle Products Ltd (1970) 1 Lloyd’s Rep 499 211
Freeman and Lockyer v Buckhurst Park Properties
(Mangal) Ltd [1964] 1 All ER 680 171, 179, 182, 183, 184,
185, 187, 188, 194,
196, 197, 205
Galatia, The
See Golodetz, M & Co Inc v Czarnikow Rionda Line, The Galatia
Gian Singh v Banque de L’Indochine [1974] 1 WLR 1234 206
Gill and Duffus v Berger & Co [1984] AC 382 87, 244, 252