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Undue Influence - From: 1200 To: 1799
This page lists 3 cases, and was prepared on 21 May 2019.
Grigby v Cox (1750) 1 Ves Sen 517
1750
Lord Hardwicke
Family, Undue Influence
The court considered a claim that the husband had exercised undue influence over his wife. Held: The court rejected any presumption of undue influence, and said that a court of equity "will have more jealousy" over dispositions by a wife to a husband.
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Bridgeman v Green (1757) Wilm 58; [1757] 97 ER 22
1757
Wilmot LC
Undue Influence, Torts - Other
The question before the court was whether certain money, which had been obtained by fraud, ought to be returned to the Plaintiff by a party who had received it, but who was not a party to the fraud. Lord Commissioner Wilmot said, "Whoever receives it, must take it tainted and infected with the undue influence and imposition of the person procuring the gift; his partitioning and cantoning it out amongst his relations and friends will not purify the gift and protect it against the equity of the person imposed upon. Let the hand receiving it be ever so chaste, yet, if it come through a corrupt, polluted channel, the obligation of restitution will follow it."
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Crowe v Ballard; 1790 - (1790) 1 Ves Jun 214