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Weir v Bell: 1878

‘I think that every person who authorizes another to act for him in the making of any contract, undertakes for the absence of fraud in that person in the execution of the authority given, as much as he undertakes for its absence in himself when he makes the contract’.

Judges:

Bramwell LJ

Citations:

(1878) 3 Exch D 238

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedHIH Casualty and General Insurance Limited and others v Chase Manhattan Bank and others HL 20-Feb-2003
The insurance company had paid claims on policies used to underwrite the production of TV films. The re-insurers resisted the claims against them by the insurers on the grounds of non-disclosure by the insured, or in the alternative damages for . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Contract, Torts – Other

Updated: 24 November 2022; Ref: scu.219297

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