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Reading v The King

Reading v Attorney-General [1951] AC 507; [1951] UKHL 1; [1951] 1 All ER 617 (HL)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHouse of Lords

Year1951

StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

A servant or agent who uses his position or opportunity afforded by it to make an unauthorised profit is accountable to his principal for that profit, even absent a trust of specific property.

Area of Law

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