Scrutton LJ said that ‘[a] term can only be implied if it is necessary in the business sense to give efficacy to the contract’. He added that a term would only be implied if ‘it is such a term that it can confidently be said that if at the time the contract was being negotiated’ the parties had been asked what would happen in a certain event, they would both have replied ”Of course, so and so will happen; we did not trouble to say that; it is too clear”.
Citations:
[1918] 1 KB 592
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Marks and Spencer Plc v BNP Paribas Securities Services Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd and Another SC 2-Dec-2015
The Court considered whether, on exercising a break clause in a lease, the tenant was entitled to recover rent paid in advance.
Held: The appeal failed. The Court of Appeal had imposed what was established law. The test for whether a clause . .
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Contract
Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.616750