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    Weston Foakes, owed the respondent, Julia Beer, a sum of £2,090 19s after a court judgment. Beer agreed that she would not take any action against Foakes for...
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  • of Foakes v Beer. Foakes v Beer [1884] UKHL 1, 9 App Cas 605, (1883-84) LR 9 App Cas 605, (1884) 9 App Cas 605 (16 May 1884) A Trukhtanov, ‘Foakes v Beer:...
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    cases like Pinnel's case and Foakes v Beer having formed part of the common law for so long. Lady Justice Arden in Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd...
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  • considered in Foakes v Beer yet held not to constitute good consideration in law. Foakes v Beer was not even referred to in Williams v Roffey Bros Ltd...
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  • Pinnel's Case was confirmed by Foakes v Beer Currie v Misa (1875) LR 10 Ex 893 Wade v Simeon (1846) 2 CB 548 White v Bluett (1853) 2 WR 75 Bronaugh R...
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    Ltd [1947] KB 130. Combe v Combe (1951) 2 KB 215 Pinnel's Case (1602) 5 Co Rep 117a Foakes v Beer (1884) 9 App Cas 605 Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings)...
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    Punamchand v Temple [1911] 2 KB 330 is often cited as one of the exceptions to the accord and satisfaction rule laid out in Foakes v Beer. In that case...
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  • was given for the plaintiff. Pinnel's case was followed by Foakes v Beer [1884] and Jorden v Money [1854]. The case law has evolved over the years to create...
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  • rely upon the earlier decision in Hadley v Baxendale 1854. Similarly, others have suggested that Foakes v Beer was decided per incuriam as it failed to...
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    Ltd v Morton [1987] 1 NZLR 411 is a leading case in New Zealand regarding accord and satisfaction; it reinforces the English case of Foakes v Beer in New...
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    Foakes v Beer (1884) Collier v P&MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 1329 Uniform Commercial Code, s.2-209 per Lloyd J, Syros Shipping Co. SA v....
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    ridiculed by Sir George Jessel in Couldery v Bartram. It was said to be mistaken by Lord Blackburn in Foakes v Beer. It was condemned by the Law Revision Committee...
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    authorities, including, in particular, the decisions of the House of Lords in Foakes v Beer and this court in In re Selectmove, that in every case where a creditor...
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    Pinnel's Case, and affirmed in Foakes v Beer. This rule has, however, been thrown into doubt by the 2007 decision of Collier v Wright Ltd. Note that promissory...
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    Jorden v Money (1854) 5 HLC 185 Foakes v Beer [1884] UKHL 1, 9 App Cas 605, (1883-84) LR 9 App Cas 605, (1884) 9 App Cas 605 (16 May 1884) Tweddle v Atkinson...
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  • doctrine of strict liability for some inherently dangerous activities. Foakes v Beer [1884] 9 A.C. 605: the rule that prevents parties from discharging a...
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  • rights. Foakes v Beer 1884 L.R. 9 A.C. 605 Part-payment of a debt, in the absence of consideration, will not extinguish the debt. Wakelin v London &...
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    Barnes v Addy (1874) LR 9 Ch App 244 L'Union St. Jacques de Montreal v. Bélisle (1874), 6 L.R. P.C. 31, [1874] UKPC 53 (P.C.). Foakes v Beer [1884] UKHL...
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  • unilateral mistake and the objective approach to interpretation of contracts Foakes v Beer (1884) on part payments of debt (with a notable dissenting opinion by...
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  • 2(a)(iii) Lomas v JFB Firth Rixson Inc [2012] EWCA Civ 419 Gloster J in Canmer International v UK Mutual Steamship "The Rays" Foakes v Beer [1884] UKHL 1...
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    also entitled to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Foakes v Beer [1884] UKHL 1, [1881-85] All ER Rep 106, (1884) 9 App Cas 605; 54 LJQB...
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  • etc.) Foakes v Beer - an old leading case on the exception of accord and satisfaction where the debt was not in dispute D & C Builders Ltd v Rees - where...
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    be accepted by anyone who performed its terms. Creen v Wright (1875–76) LR 1 CPD 591 Foakes v Beer (Lindley sitting in the Court of Appeal) [1884] UKHL...
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    Such a principle was only finally accepted by English courts in 1932. Foakes v Beer (Brett sitting in the Court of Appeal) [1884] UKHL 1, [1881-85] All...
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    Australia Pty Ltd v Pace (1988) 15 NSWLR 130 LawCite. Thorby v Goldberg [1964] HCA 41, (1964) 112 CLR 597, High Court Foakes v Beer [1884] UKHL 1, (1884)...
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    is to reduce debt repayments. In Foakes v Beer, the House of Lords held that even though Mrs Beer promised Mr Foakes he could pay back £2090 19s by instalment...
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  • Rep. 117a Stilk v Myrick [1809] EWHC KB J58 Foakes v Beer (1884) 9 App Cas 605 D & C Builders Ltd v Rees [1965] 2 QB 617 Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls...
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  • by the theorists to the status of "rules", in Stilk v Myrick, Dickinson v Dodds and Foakes v Beer, all as a way of ensuring that the doctrine of consideration...
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    Supply Association (1880) Speight v Gaunt (1883–84) LR 9 App Cas 1 Foakes v Beer [1884] UKHL 1, [1881-85] All ER Rep 106, (1884) 9 App Cas 605; 54 LJQB...
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    to increase our sense of responsibility". Judgments of Fry include: Foakes v Beer [1884] UKHL 1, [1881-85] All ER Rep 106, (1884) 9 App Cas 605; 54 LJQB...
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