Lord Cairns
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Cairns
in the texts
The Law of Torts
House of Lords judge whose formulation of when withholding facts amounts to misrepresentation is cited as authoritative.
” Lord Cairns, L.
22-3, approved by Lord Cairns in Peek v.
Lord Cairns, L.
The Genius of the Common Law
Equity lawyer mentioned as possibly the only peer of Jessel among recent judges.
But, while Bramwell declared that he could attach no meaning to constructive fraud (having satisfied himself, presumably, that the constructive possession and constructive delivery of modern commercial law were simpler notions), Bowen could, with the utmost courtesy, and more justly and profitably, point out that Jessel, surpassed by none among recent equity lawyers, and perhaps equaled only by Ca …