Cases - Charles Rickards Ltd v Oppenheim

Record details

Name

Charles Rickards Ltd v Oppenheim

Date

(1950)

Citation

1 KB 616

Keywords

Construction claim - reasonable time - delay - time of essence - expiry of time - waiver by purchaser

Summary

This case is considered further below in relation to contracts where time is of the essence. In delivering the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Denning LJ considered what was meant by a reasonable time and appeared to approve the submissions made by the appellant:

'He cited the well-known words of Lord Watson in Hick v Raymond and Reid, that where the law implies that a contract shall be performed within a reasonable time, it had "invariably been held to mean that the party upon whom it is incumbent duly fulfils his obligation, notwithstanding protracted delay, so long as such delay is attributable to causes beyond his control and he has neither acted negligently nor unreasonably."'