The court considered the principles applicable in construing a partnership agreement.
Harman J said: ‘The doctrine of repudiation and other contractual provisions applied to a partnership contract whether made by a deed or orally in the same way as it did to all other contracts. Equity had acted in aid of the law, and the Partnership Act 1890 was not a complete code; it did not rule out the laws of contract which equity had been acting in aid of.’
Judges:
Harman J
Citations:
[1982] 80 LS Gaz 550
Statutes:
Cited by:
Distinguished – Mullins v Laughton and Others ChD 19-Dec-2002
The claimant asserted that his partners had repudiated the partnership by their conduct toward him. He continued that he had accepted the repudiation, and that therefore the partnership was dissolved.
Held: The Hurst case had been on the basis . .
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Updated: 29 April 2022; Ref: scu.183452
