United Kingdom quantum meruitbreachpart performance

Planche v Colborn

Planche v Colburn (1831) 8 Bing 14; 172 ER 876; [1831] EWHC KB J56

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtCourt of Common Pleas (Court of King's Bench, Nisi Prius)

Year1831

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where a party has begun to perform a contract and is prevented from completing it by the other party's repudiation or abandonment of the contract, he may abandon the contract and recover a reasonable sum on a quantum meruit for the work actually done.

Area of Law

General

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