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Australia rectificationconstructionperformance bonds

Simic v New South Wales Land and Housing Corporation

(2016) 260 CLR 85
JurisdictionAustralia
CourtHigh Court of Australia
Year2016
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where a performance bond misnames the intended beneficiary, the instrument cannot be 'construed' loosely to cure the error, but equity may rectify it to reflect the parties' actual common intention that the beneficiary be the principal under the underlying contract.

Area of Law

contract

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