Central London Property Trust v High Trees House
1947 · KB 130
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- Facts
- In wartime a landlord promised to take half the ground rent. The tenant paid the reduced rent. After the war the landlord claimed the full rent again, including for the war years.
- Issue
- Could the landlord go back on the promise for the period in which it had been relied on?
- Held
- Not for those years. Where a promise to accept less is acted on, it is inequitable to insist on the full right for that period.
- Principle
- can suspend a contractual right where there has been reliance.
- Why it matters
- It does not abolish Foakes v Beer. It restrains enforcement of the strict right.
Words and Latin in this note
- Promissory estoppel
- A promise not to insist on a strict right, which the other person has relied on. The promisor may be stopped from going back on it. It restrains a right. It does not, by itself, create a new claim. Open the note.
- Estoppel
- A rule that stops a person from going back on something they said or did when another person relied on it. Open the note.
Also on Lanbuk
- The judgment: Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd [1946] EWHC KB 1 (18 July 1946)
- Central London Property Trust v High Trees House in Lanbuk on the Law of Equity and Trusts
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