Smith V Hughes - See Also

See Also

• Investors' Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society UKHL 28

• Plate v. Durst, 42 W.Va. 63, 66-67, 24 S.E. 580, 581, 32 LRA 404 (1896) defendant promised plaintiff £1000 and a diamond ring if she would remain his domestic servant for 10 years, and she did, but then he claimed the promise was only in jest. Held that there was a valid contract. "Jokes are sometimes taken seriously... if such is the case, and thereby the person deceived is led to give valuable services in the full belief and expectation that the joker is in earnest, the law will also take the joker at his word, and give him good reason to smile."

• Hotchkiss v National City Bank of New York, 200 F 287, 293 (SD NY 1911), per Learned Hand J, "A contract has, strictly speaking, nothing to do with the personal, or individual, intent of the parties. A contract is an obligation attached by the mere force of law to certain acts of the parties, usually words, which ordinarily accompany and represent a known intent. If, however, it were proved by twenty bishops that either party, when he used the words, intended something else than the usual meaning that the law imposes upon them, he would still be held, unless there were some mutual mistake or something else of the sort."

• Hillas & Co Ltd v Arcos Ltd UKHL 2
• Hartog v Colin & Shields 3 All ER 566
• Frederick E Rose (London) Ltd v William H Pim Junior & Co Ltd 2 QB 450
• Statoil ASA v Louis Dreyfus Energy Services LP EWHC 2257 (Comm)