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The leading case on [[waiver by estoppel]] and [[estoppel]]. | {{cn}}The leading case on [[waiver by estoppel]] and [[promissory estoppel]], seized on by the late, great [[Lord Denning]] in the celebrated {{casenote|Central London Property Trust Ltd|High Trees House Ltd}}. | ||
Mr Hughes owned a property on the Euston Road. He let it to the Metropolitan Railway. the lease had a covenant requiring the leaseholder to repair on six months notice. Hughes served a notice to repair in October. | Mr Hughes owned a property on the Euston Road. He let it to the Metropolitan Railway. the lease had a covenant requiring the leaseholder to repair on six months notice. Hughes served a notice to repair in October. | ||
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:''My Lords, I repeat that I attribute to the Appellant no intention here to take advantage of, to lay a trap for, or to lull into false security those with whom he was dealing; but it appears to me that both parties by entering upon the negotiation which they entered upon, made it an inequitable thing that the exact period of six months dating from the month of October should afterwards be measured out as against the Respondents as the period during which the repairs must be executed. | :''My Lords, I repeat that I attribute to the Appellant no intention here to take advantage of, to lay a trap for, or to lull into false security those with whom he was dealing; but it appears to me that both parties by entering upon the negotiation which they entered upon, made it an inequitable thing that the exact period of six months dating from the month of October should afterwards be measured out as against the Respondents as the period during which the repairs must be executed. | ||
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*{{casenote|Central London Property Trust Ltd|High Trees House Ltd}} | |||
*[https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1877/1.html judgment] | *[https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1877/1.html judgment] | ||
[[Waiver by estoppel]] | [[Waiver by estoppel]] | ||