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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) 5051.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

7 McTurnan, loc. cit.

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.

17 Cf., Woodward, F.C., The Law of Quasi-Contracts (1913) 65et seq.Google Scholar