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Hopes, Expectations and Revocable Promises in Proprietary Estoppel
Author(s) -
Piška Nick
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the modern law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.37
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-2230
pISSN - 0026-7961
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2009.00778.x
Subject(s) - estoppel , equity (law) , ascription , scope (computer science) , context (archaeology) , law and economics , business , law , political science , philosophy , economics , computer science , linguistics , history , doctrine , programming language , archaeology
This note dicusses the House of Lords' decisions in Cobbe v Yeoman's Row Management Ltd ( Cobbe ) and Thorner v Major ( Thorner ) regarding the nature and scope of proprietary estoppel. It considers the historical development of the modern law of proprietary estoppel, the circumstances in which equity will render a promise irrevocable, and the role of context in the ascription of responsibility.