A person with a right to rescind a contract may be held to have affirmed the contract even if there are some material facts which he did not know at the time of the affirmation. However: ‘ . . there is a duty resting upon the purchaser who knows, and is aware that he knows, more about the partnership accounts than the vendor, to put the vendor on possession of all material facts with reference to the partnership assets, and not to conceal what he alone knows; and that, unless such information has been furnished, the sale is voidable and may be set aside.’
Cozens-Hardy LJ
[1905] 1 Ch 140
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Simms v Conlon and Another CA 20-Dec-2006
Solicitors within a practice sued each other, and one wished to plead the fact of a finding of professional misconduct.
Held: The defendant’s appeal succeeded. It was not an abuse for the appellant to continue to assert his innocence, and the . .
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Updated: 25 July 2021; Ref: scu.248043
