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MCC Proceeds Inc v Bishopsgate Investment Trust plc

[1998] EWCA Civ 1680; [1999] CLC 417
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division) (England and Wales)
Year1999
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A person who has only an equitable or beneficial interest in goods, without legal title and without actual possession or an immediate right to possession, has no title to sue at common law in conversion, and the Judicature Acts did not alter that substantive rule by fusing law and equity.

Area of Law

General

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