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Hughes v Metropolitan Railway Co
1877 UK House of Lords case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hughes v Metropolitan Railway Co [1877] is a House of Lords case considered unremarkable for many years until it was resurrected in 1947 by Lord Denning in the case of Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd in his development of the doctrine of promissory estoppel. The case was the first known instance of the concept of promissory estoppel.
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Court | House of Lords |
Full case name | THOMAS HUGHES APPELLANT v THE DIRECTORS, & C., OF THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY COMPANY RESPONDENTS |
Decided | 5 June 1877 |
Citations | [1877] UKHL 1, [1877] 2 AC 439 |
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Judges sitting | Lord Cairns LC, Lord O'Hagan, LORD SELBORNE, LORD BLACKBURN, LORD GORDON |
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Lord Cairns LC |
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