RELEVANCE OF SUBJECT TO CONTRACT

• Date: 06 February 2019

(1) "In Law v. Jones (1973) 2 All E.R. 437, it was decided by the Court of Appeal that the unilateral insertion of the words ‘subject to contract’ into correspondence between the solicitors acting for the parties did not negative the effect of any existing binding agreement, whether oral or written, made between the parties. It is true the correctness of the decision was not accepted later by the same Court in Triverton Estates Ltd v. Wearwell Ltd. (1974) 1 All. E.R. 209. But the case illustrates that if there is any sense in which those words can be considered not to represent what the parties really...