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The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (c. 31) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly reformed the common law doctrine of privity and "thereby [removed] one of the most universally disliked and criticised blots on the legal landscape". [2]
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Privity is a doctrine in English contract law that covers the relationship between parties to a contract and other parties or agents. At its most basic level, the rule is that a contract can neither give rights to, nor impose obligations on, anyone who is not a party to the original agreement, i.e. a "third party".
Third-party insurance - A third party may claim under an insurance policy made for their benefit, even though that party did not pay the premiums. Contracts for the benefit of a group , where a contract to supply a service is made in one person's name but is intended to sue at common law if the contract is breached; there is no privity of ...
Jus tertii (English: rights of a third party/ stranger) is a term for the legal argument by which a person can defend a claim made against them by invoking the rights of a stranger to the dispute. The defence asserts that the rights of the stranger are superior to those of the claimant; in other words the defence is that the claimant has ...
Beswick v Beswick [1967] UKHL 2, [1968] AC 58 was a landmark English contract law case on privity of contract and specific performance.The House of Lords, overruling the decision of Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal, ruled that a person who was not party to a contract had no independent standing to sue to enforce it, even if the contract was clearly intended for their benefit.
A contract made in favor of a third party is known as a "third-party beneficiary contract." Under traditional common law , the ius quaesitum tertio principle was not recognized, instead relying on the doctrine of privity of contract , which restricts rights, obligations, and liabilities arising from a contract to the contracting parties (said ...
It has been said the Regulations "sit atop the Act like an ill-fitting wig". [1] The 1994 Regulations were declared an insufficient implementation of the Directive, and had to be replaced by the 1999 Regulations; but once again, the opportunity to consolidate the law into an updated Unfair Contracts Terms Act was missed.