The House described the doctrines of English law which are applicable to cases where goods belonging to different owners have become mixed so as to be incapable of either being distinguished or separated: ‘If the mixing has arisen from the fault of B, A can claim the goods.’ but ‘the whole matter is far from being within the domain of settled law’.
Judges:
Lord Moulton
Citations:
[1913] AC 680
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Foskett v McKeown and Others HL 18-May-2000
A property developer using monies which he held on trust to carry out a development instead had mixed those monies with his own in his bank account, and subsequently used those mixed monies to pay premiums on a life assurance policy on his own life, . .
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Equity
Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.220690