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The Moorcock

(1889) 14 PD 64
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (England and Wales)
Year1889
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A term will be implied into a contract only so far as necessary to give business efficacy to the transaction as the parties must have intended, not merely because it would be reasonable.

Area of Law

c

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