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Museprime Properties Ltd v Adhill Properties Ltd
[1990] 2 EGLR 196; (1991) 61 P & CR 111
Key Principle
In an action for misrepresentation it is not necessary that the misrepresentation be 'material' in any objective sense; what matters is whether it in fact induced the representee to enter the contract, and where a misrepresentation would have induced a reasonable person to contract the burden shifts to the representor to prove the representee was not in fact induced.
Area of Law
Contract and Commercial
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