Lord Alverstone CJ said: ‘It is, I think, clearly established as a general proposition that where two persons have entered into a contract, the performance of which on one or both sides is to extend over a period of time, each contracting party is bound to abstain from doing anything which will prevent him from fulfilling the obligations which he has undertaken to discharge; further, that, where a person has undertaken to carry on a business, out of the profits of which he has undertaken to pay certain moneys as a consideration for the contract to the other party to the contract, he must not by his own act or default disable and incapacitate himself from further carrying on such business.’
Judges:
Lord Alverstone CJ
Citations:
[1903] UKLawRpKQB 129, (1903) 2 KB 287
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – Ogdens Ltd v Nelson Ogdens Ltd v Telford HL 24-Mar-1905
A, a company of wholesale tobacco manufacturers, issued a circular to retail dealers offering them a share in a bonus on condition of their signing an agreement, inter alia, not to deal with B Limited. B Limited, in response, issued a circular . .
Cited – Duval v 11-13 Randolph Crescent Ltd SC 6-May-2020
The Court was asked whether the landlord of a block of flats is entitled, without breach of covenant, to grant a licence to a lessee to carry out work which, but for the licence, would breach a covenant in the lease of his or her flat, where the . .
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Contract
Updated: 05 October 2022; Ref: scu.681433