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Contract Law - Promissory estoppel.
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Contract Law Promissory estoppel Main Case: The doctrine derived from the case of Huges v Metropolitan Railway Co (1877), involving a landlord and his tenants. Under the lease the tenants were obliged to keep the premises in good repair, and in October 1874, they landlord gave them 6 months' notice to do some repairs, stating that if they were not done in that time, the lease would be forfeited. In November, the two parties began to negotiate the possibility of the tenants buying the lease, the tenants stating that in the mean time they would not carry out the repairs. By December, the negotiations had broken down, and at the end of the six month notice period, the landlord claimed that the lease was forfeited because the tenants had not done the repairs. The House of Lords held, that the landlords conduct was an implied promise to the tenants that he would not...
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