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Maggs v Marsh

[2006] EWCA Civ 1058; [2006] BLR 396
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Year2006
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where a contract is wholly or partly oral, the ascertainment of its terms is a question of fact, and (unlike the construction of a written contract) evidence of what the parties said and did after the contract was concluded is admissible to help determine what was actually agreed.

Area of Law

General

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