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Ab initio

Above tests not conclusive

Abrahams v Performing Right Society

ABTA

Acceptance

Acceptance by conduct

Acceptance may be retrospective

Acceptance of breach

Acceptance prescribed

Accepts some of the goods

Accidental third party rights

Accidental third party rights under

Acknowledgements

Acquisition

Act

Act adopting transaction

Act inconsistent with ownership

Acting for purposes relating to his trade etc

Action

Adams v Lindsell

Addis v Gramophone Co Ltd

Adequacy of consideration

Adequacy of the price

Adler v Dickson

Advertisements

AEG UK Ltd v Logic Resource Limited

Affirmation

Affirmation by election

Affirmed contract

Affreightment

Agent

Agreement

Agreement contemplated

Agreement to agree

Agreements to agree

Agreements to sell

AIC Limited v ITS Testing Services (UK)

Ailsa Craig Fishing Co Ltd v Malvern Fishing Co Ltd and Securicor Scotland

Ajayi v RT Briscoe Nigeria Ltd

Alderslade v Hendon Laundry Ltd

Alderson B

Aldridge v Johnson

Al-Kandari v JR Brown & Co

Allcard v Skinner

Aluminium Industrie Vaassen BV v Romalpa Aluminium Ltd

Amalgamated Investment & Property Co Ltd v John Walker & Sons Ltd

Amount

Ampol Petroleum Ltd

An advertisement can be an offer

Andrabell Ltd

Andrews Brothers Bournemouth Ltd v Singer and Co Ltd

Andrews v Hopkinson

Anglia Television Ltd v Reed

Anglo-American Telegraph Co Ltd

Anglo-Continental Holidays Ltd

Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Products Co Ltd

Antaios Compania Naviera SA v Salen Rederierna AB

Anti-technicality

Any particular purpose

Apex Supply Co Ltd

Appearance

Appleby v Meyers

Application

Appropriated

Approval period

Archdale & Co Ltd v Comservices Ltd

Archital Luxfer Limited

Archivent Sales and Development v Strathclyde Regional Council

Arcos Ltd

Arcos v Ronaasen

Are offer and acceptance always necessary?

Armour v Thyssen Edelstahlwerke AG

Artpower Ltd v Bespoke Couture Ltd

Arun DC

Ascertained goods

Ascertainment

Ascertainment by exhaustion

Ascertainment of price

Ashhurst J

Ashworth J

Asquith LJ

Assessment

Assessment no bar

Assessment of damages by the parties

Assessment of quantum meruit

Associated Japanese Bank

Bailees

Bairstow Eves London Central Limited v Adrian Smith

Balcombe LJ

Balfour v Balfour

Banco Exterior Internacional SA

Bank of Baroda v Rayarel

Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA in liquidation v Ali

Bank of Montreal v Stuart

Bannerman v White

Banque Bruxelles Lambert SA

Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms Son & Cooke (Southern) Ltd

Barclays Bank plc v Coleman

Barclays Bank plc v O Brien

Baron

Barry v Heathcote Ball & Co Commercial Auctions Ltd

Battle

Bear Stearns Bank plc v Forum Global Equity Ltd

Beattie J

Beattie v Lord Ebury

Beck & Co v Szymanowski & Co

Behzadi v Shaftesbury Hotels Ltd

Beldam LJ

Bell v Lever Brothers Ltd

Benefit/detriment

Benefits

Best C J

Beswick v Beswick

Blackpool Borough Council

Boots Cash Chemists Ltd

Both parties furnished fresh consideration

Branca v Cobarro

Brandon J

Brandon LJ

Branson J

Breach

Breach date rule

Breach of the implied obligation

Bredero Homes Ltd

Brett J

Bridge LJ

Brightman J

Brikom Investments Ltd v Carr

Brimnes

Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandelsgesellschaft mbH

British Bank for Foreign Trade v Novinex

British Motor Trade Association

British Road Services Ltd v Arthur V Crutchley & Co Ltd

British Steel Corporation v Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co Ltd

Brogden v Metropolitan Railway Company

Browne LJ

Brownlie v Campbell

Bruner v Moore

Buckley J

Buckley LJ

Bucknill LJ

Building contracts

Bunge Corporation v Tradax Export SA

Burnett v Westminster Bank Ltd

Burnside J

Burrough J

Bushwall Properties Ltd v Vortex Properties Ltd

Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corporation England Ltd

Bwllfa case

Byles J

Byrne & Co v Van Tienhoven & Co

Cade Brothers Farms

Cairns LJ

Campbell Discount Co Ltd v Bridge

Car & Universal Finance Co Ltd v Caldwell

Carbolic Smoke Ball

Cardozo J

Carl Prior Limited

Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co

Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company

Cases which show that a mistake as to substance will avoid the contract

Cehave NV v Bremer Handelsgesellschaft GmbH The Hansa Nord

CEL Group Ltd v Nedlloyd Lines UK Ltd

Cellulose Acetate Silk Co Ltd v Widnes Foundry

Cellulose Acetate Silk Co Ltd v Widnes Foundry 1925 Ltd

Central Intelligence Agency

Charterparty

Circumstances change

Claims for stigma compensation

Classique Coaches

Communicate acceptance

Communication

Compensatory nature

Conditions

Conduct required

Consent

Consideration

Constitutes

Consumer Transactions (Restrictions on Statements) Order 1976

Contract

Contract variation

Contracts

Contracts excluded

Contractual liabilities upon third parties

Contractual rights

Counter offer

Course of post

Currie

Damages

Dealing as a consumer

Deceit

Definition

Determine

Detriment test

Dickinson

Difficulty

Dimmock v Hallett

Discharge

Distinguish between terms

Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company v New Garage

Duty

Enforce contractual term

Esso Petroleum v Mardon

Esso Petroleum v Niad

Establishing economic duress

Estopped

Estoppel

Etridge

Euro London Appointments Ltd v Claessens International Ltd

Evans & Son Portsmouth Ltd v Andrea Merzario Ltd

Evans LJ

Evasion by means of secondary contract

Eveleigh LJ

Evenden v Guildford City Association Football Club Ltd

Event must defeat common intention of the parties

Example of time being of the essence

Examples of invitation to treat

Examples of invitation to treat - Auctions

Examples of invitation to treat - Goods on display

Exclude postal rules

Exclusion clauses

Exclusion clauses purporting to exclude liability for misrepresentation

Exclusion clauses rendered void

Exclusion/exemption clauses

Exemption clause

Exemption clauses

Exemption clauses and third parties

Ex-gratia

Experience Hendrix LLC v PPX Enterprises Inc

Explanation of definition of consideration

Export Credits Guarantee Department v Universal Oil Products Co

Express terms

Expression of intention

Expressly identifying the third party

Fact

Failure

Fair Trading Act 1973

False representation

Felthouse v Bindley

Finney Lock Seeds Ltd

Foley

Formation

Forms

Fraud

Fraudulent misrepresentation

Fylde Aero Club Ltd v Blackpool Borough Council

George Mitchell

Gibson v Manchester City Council

Hadley v Baxendale

Hallett

he Moorcock

Holwell Securities

Household Fire & Carriage Accident Insurance Company Ltd v Grant

Howard Marine

Hyde v Wrench

Implied term of mutual trust and confidence

Implied terms

Imposition

Incomplete agreements

Induce

Information

Innocent

Innocent misrepresentation

Inspection

Invitation

Invitation to treat

Lapse

L'Estrange v Graucob Ltd

Limiting

Limits

Liquidated damages

Magazines

Manchester City Council

McGruther v Pitcher

Mere silence

Method

Mihalis Angelos

Miles Far East Corporation

Misrepresentation

Mistake

Mitigate damage suffered

Modern approach

Negligent misrepresentation

Newspapers

Notice

Objective appearance

Offer

Offer destroys

Offer open

Offeree need not communicate acceptance

Offeror

Operative misrepresentation

Opinion

Opportunities

Partridge v Crittenden

Passing

Past consideration

Penalty clauses

Peter Symmons Co v Cook

Positive statement

Postal rules

Presumed communication

Preventing

Price

Pricewatch

Privity

Privity of contract rule

Quantum meruit

Reasonableness Test

Rectification

Redgrave v Hurd

Rely

Remedies

Remedies available

Representation

Request

Rescind

Rescind contract under

Revocation

Right enforce

Rights

Routledge v Grant

S.14

S.3 UCTA

S.6 Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977

Sale of Goods Act 1979

Scammell

Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd

Section 48B Repair or replacement of the goods

Section 48C Reduction of purchase price or rescission of contract

Section 48D Relation to other remedies etc

Section 48E Powers of the court

Section 48F Conformity with the contract

Seller

Seller’s lien

Seller's action against the buyer for price or damages

Seller's action for damages

Seller's action for price

Services

Severable

Severable contract

Severable contracts

Severable goods

Shaw v Commissioner of Metropolitan Police

Sheriff's poer to sell goods

Shine v General Guarantee

Shipton Anderson

Shop window

Silence is not consent

Slater v Hoyle and Smith

Slight breach

Slight excess

Smith v Eric S Bush

Smith v Eric S Bush & Harris v Wyre Forest BC

Smith v Hughes

Somes v British Empire Shipping Co

Sometimes difficult

Special damages

Special powers of sale

Specialist knowledge of buyer

Specific goods

Specific goods - rules for ascertaining the parties intention - S.18 Rule 4

Specific performance

Spence v Union Marine Insurance Co Ltd

Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw

St Albans City and District Council v ICL

Staffs Motor Guarantee v British Wagon

Stag Line Ltd v Tyne Shiprepairer Group

Standard contract

Stapylton Fletcher Ltd

Statement

Statutory powers of sale

Statutory provisions of the UK

Stephens v Cuckfield Rural District Council

Sterns Ltd v Vickers Ltd

Stevenson v McLean

Stevenson v Rogers

Stewart Gill Ltd v Horatio Myer & Co Ltd

Stilk v Myrick

Stoppage in transit

Sub buyer

Sub sale

Subject to contract

Sum

Supplier

Tatung (UK) Limited v Galex Telesure Ltd

Taylor v Combined Buyers

Teheran-Europe Co Ltd v Bolton (Tractors) Ltd

Telex

Tenders

Terminated contract

Terms

Terms implied by courts

Terms implied by statute

Terrorem

Tests

Tests to distinguish between terms and representations

Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd

The acquisition of contractual rights by third parties

The Aramis

The Brimnes

The Brimnes Tenax Steamship Co Ltd v Owners of the motor vessel Brimnes

The Chester Grosvenor Hotel Company Ltd v Alfred Mcalpine Management Ltd

The consent of the owner

The Elli

The Flamar Pride

The Gudermes

The imposition of contractual liabilities upon third parties

The Myth

The objective test

The Post Chaser

The postal rules

The representation must induce

The representation must induce the contract

The right

The right measure

The right to rescind

The right to rescind the contract

The Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2002

The Society of Lloyds v Geoffrey George Twinn Gail Sally Anne Twinn

The Super Servant Two

There must be a false representation

Thesiger LJ

Things

Things attached land

Things attached to the land

Things not covered by the Act

Third Parties

Third party rights

Third party s right to rely on an exclusion clause

Third party’s right

Thomas Bates & Son Ltd v Wyndham s Lingerie Ltd

Thomas Borthwick (Glasgow) Ltd v Bunge & Co Ltd

Thomas v Heelas

Thomas v Thomas

Thomas Witter Ltd v TBP Industries Ltd

Thompson v London Midland and Scottish Railway Company

Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking Ltd

Time

Time between the making of the statement and the parties entering into the contract

Time ends

Time is not normally the essence of a contract

Time not originally of the essence

Time of delivery

Time of notice

Time of payment

Time of the essence

Timecharter

Tindal CJ

Title

Tool Metal Manufacturing Co Ltd v Tungsten Electric Co Ltd

Tort

Tortfeasor

Total Gas Marketing Ltd v Arco British Ltd

Trade Descriptions Act 1968

Trade Descriptions Act 1968 s.1(1)

Trade Descriptions Act 1968 s.1(1)(b)

Trade Descriptions Act 1968 s.2(1)

Trade names

Trade purchasers

Tradesman s Mutual Life Assurance Society

Transfer of possession

Transit not at an end

Travel contracts

Treat

Trident Turboprop (Dublin) Ltd v First Flight Couriers Ltd

Trollope & Colls Ltd v North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board

Trusts

Trusts of contractual rights

Tsakiroglou & Co Ltd v Noblee & Thorl GmbH

Tucker J

Tucker v Linger

Tudor Grange Holdings Ltd v Citibank NA

Turley v Bates

Turner LJ

Tweddle v Atkinson

Types

Uberrimae fidei

UCB Corporate Services Limited v Williams

UCTA

UCTA - insurance

UCTA 1977

UCTA 1977 Sch 2.

UCTA s.13

UCTA s.2

UCTA s.2(1)

UCTA s.2(2)

Uncertainty

Uncertainty of terms

Undue influence

Unfair

Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977

Unfair Terms

Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999

Unilateral mistake

Unilateral offer

United Dominions Corporation Jamaica Ltd v Shoucair

Universe Tankships Inc of Monrovia v International Transport Workers Federation

Unjust enrichment

Unjust enrichment total failure of consideration

Unreasonable indemnity clauses

Unreasonableness

Unsatisfactory position at common law

Upjohn LJ

Uthwatt J

Vagueness

Valuable consideration

Variation

Varieties of exemption clause

Varley v Whipp

Vaswani v Italian Motors Sales and Services Ltd

Void

Void clauses

Void contracts

Voidable contracts

Voidable transaction

Wait & James v Midland Bank

Wait, Re

Waiver

Waiver of delivery time

Waiver of lien

Ward v Bignall

Warehouseman

Warinco v Samor

Warranties

Warranty

Weiner v Gill

Weldtech Equipment Ltd

Wertheim v Chicoutimi Pulp

What are goods?

When does property pass?

White & Carter

Whittington v Seale-Hayne

Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd

Widgery LJ

Wilde B

Willes J

William Paley

William Sindall plc

William Sindall plc v Cambridgeshire County Council

Williams J

Williams v Agius

Williams v Bayley

Williams v Carwardine

Williams v Roffey Bros

Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls Contractors Ltd

Willmer LJ

Wilson v Rickett Cockerell & Co Ltd

Winn v Bull

Wiskin v Terdich Broswiskin

With v O Flanagan

Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd

Woodhouse AC Israel Cocoa Ltd SA v Nigerian Produce Marketing Co Ltd

Woodruff J

Worcester Works Finance Ltd

Work

Wright J

Wrightman J

Writ of executors

Written contracts

Written standard terms of business

Wrongfull refusal to deliver

Wrotham Park Estate Co v Parkside Homes Ltd

Yates Building Company Ltd v RJ Pulleyn & Sons York Ltd

Yorkstone Properties

Zamet v Hyman

Zanzibar