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Mistake of Fact and Mistake of Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2016
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1 Cheshire, and Fifoot, , Law of Contract (7th ed., 1969) 194.Google Scholar
2 Clifton v. Cockburn (1834) 3 Myl. & K. 76, 99.
3 Winfield, P.M., Law of Quasi-Contracts (1952) 50–51.Google Scholar
4 Cheshire and Fifoot, op. cit., p. 590.
5 (1802) 2 East. 469.
6 4 Bl. 26–27. Cf. McTurnan, L.B., “Common Mistake” (1963) 41 Can.B.R. 1, 32–33.Google Scholar
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8 Ibid.
9 [1960] A.C. 192, 204.
10 McTurnan, op. cit. 34.
11 The Supreme Court sat with a bench of five judges, instead of the normal three, indicative apparently of the importance which the President of the Court attached to the case.
12 [1949] 2 K.B. 683.
13 Cf., Minister of Health v. Simpson [1951] A.C. 251.
14 In Kiriri v. Dewani, ubi supra.
15 The Law of Restitution (1966) 81.
16 Ibid. pp. 61–62.
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