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Chitty on Contracts is one of the leading textbooks covering English contract law. The textbook is now in its 35th edition. The textbook is now in its 35th edition. The first editors were Joseph Chitty the Younger and Thompson Chitty, sons of Joseph Chitty .
He married Elizabeth Woodward, and they had eight children. Of those, Joseph Chitty the younger, Thomas Chitty, Edward Chitty, and Thompson Chitty were lawyers and legal writers: [2] Joseph the younger and Thompson were the first editors of the standard textbook Chitty on Contracts. [6] Judge Joseph William Chitty was a grandson (son of Thomas ...
Subsequent to the publication of that edition of Chitty the Court of Appeal expressly replicated that statement. [ 3 ] : para 44 But even the editors of Chitty have acknowledged that their own preferred test of the requirement of genuine pre-estimate of loss has become very flexible.
"Chitty was known as a kind and genial man, a keen whist player and musician, and an energetic volunteer." [1] He retired in 1877, and died at home in London. [1] In 1826, he had married Eliza née Cawston, and the couple had two sons who followed in their father's legal footsteps: [1] Thomas Edward Chitty (1826/7-1868), clerk to the Bristol ...
Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 1st Baronet (24 June 1855 – 15 February 1930) was a British judge, barrister, and legal scholar. From 1901 to 1920, he was a Master of the King's Bench Division, High Court of Justice. From 1920 to 1926, he served as the King's Remembrancer; the oldest judicial position in continual existence.
The Portuguese code renders a guarantee provable by all the modes established by law for the proof of the principal contract [38] According to most civil codes civil a guarantee like any other contract can usually be made verbally in the presence of witnesses and in certain cases (where for instance considerable sums of money are involved) sous ...
The Chitty Baronetcy, of The Temple, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created on 25 January 1924 for the lawyer and legal writer Sir Thomas Chitty . He was Master of the Supreme Court from 1900 to 1920 and Senior Master of the Supreme Court and King's Remembrancer from 1920 to 1926 as well as managing editor of ...
A Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown (full title: A Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown; and the Relative Duties and Rights of the Subject) is an 1820 legal text by Joseph Chitty. The text provides the most comprehensive list of royal prerogative powers in the United Kingdom. [1]