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Frederick E Rose (London) Ltd v William H Pim Junior & Co Ltd

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held that because both parties were agreed on horsebeans, and the contract was not void for mistake, nor could the contractual document be rectified in this instance. Denning LJ said this was not a claim for rectification because that is concerned with contracts and documents, not with intentions. In
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supplier, William H Pim Junior & Co Ltd, what feveroles were. Pim replied ‘feveroles means just horsebeans’. They contracted for the supply of ‘horsebeans’. Both believed horsebeans were feveroles. However, little did Rose know, there are three bean sizes, feves, feveroles and fevettes. Rose got
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feves delivered, which are larger and cheaper. The English firm had a claim for the wrong beans being delivered, and Rose in turn brought a claim against Pim. Rose sought to rectify the contract to replace ‘horsebean’ with ‘feverole’.
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order to get rectification, it is necessary to show that the parties were in complete agreement on the terms of their contract, but by an error wrote them down wrongly. He said there might have been a case in
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or mistake but that was not pleaded and it is very different from rectification. He added that they probably should not have dropped the claim for
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Frederick E Rose (London) Ltd was asked to supply ‘up to five hundred tons of Moroccan
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Frederick E Rose (London) Ltd v William H Pim Junior & Co Ltd
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Spencer, ‘The Rule in L’Estrange v Graucob’ CLJ 104, 108
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that the beans would comply with a demand for feveroles.
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Court of Appeal
[1953] 2 QB 450
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Denning LJ
Singleton LJ
Morris LJ
Rectification
[1953] 2 QB 450
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English contract law
rectification
interpretation of contracts in English law
horsebeans
Egypt
Algerian
Denning LJ
Singleton LJ
Morris LJ
misrepresentation
collateral warranty
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Smith v Hughes
(1871) LR 6 QB 597
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Hartog v Colin & Shields
Canada Steamship Lines v R
[1952] AC 192

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