A contract debt had been then secured on land. The defendant pleaded limitation.
Held: The section, in not enlarging the period of recovery of a simple contract debt from 6 years to 12 years, was prohibitory and was enacted to limit existing limitation periods relating to the recovery of debts charged on land. The addition of the charge did not extend the period for recovery of the debt itself.
Judges:
ALSmith LJ
Citations:
[1899] 1 QB 885
Statutes:
Cited by:
Cited – Wilkinson and Another v West Bromwich Building Society CA 30-Jul-2004
The Society had repossessed and sold the mortgagors’ house in 1990. It knew then that there was a shortfall, but took no further recovery proceedings until 2002. What was the date from which the relevant limitation period began to run? Though the . .
Cited – Hopkinson and Others and Birmingham Mid-Shires Building Society v Tupper CA 30-Jan-1997
The plaintiffs appealed from an order striking out their claim for want of prosecution. The defendant’s property had been sold by the mortgagees, and the plaintiffs as assignees of their debt sought to recover the balance outstanding from the . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Limitation
Updated: 13 May 2022; Ref: scu.199716