Fibrosa S.A. v. Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd (1942). Spółka z Kresów przed Izbą Lordów

• Authors: Jan Halberda

Title variants

EN

Fibrosa S.A. v. Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd (1942). The Company from Kresy (Polish Eastern Borderlands) Before the House of Lords

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses Fibrosa S.A. v. Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd (1942), a case considered as one of several landmark cases in the English law of restitution. What was at stake in litigation before the House of Lords was whether a Polish plaintiff should recover a prepayment transferred pursuant to a contract that had become frustrated because of the outbreak of war in 1939. The lords had to decide on the application of two potentially dissonant doctrines – frustration and total failure of consideration. But what made the Fibrosa case famous was an obiter dictum delivered by lord Wright. This eminent judge declared that English law should provide remedies for unjust enrichment. That is the very reason why the case is still being cited by the lawyers today.

Keywords

PL

historia prawa, Anglia, bezpodstawne wzbogacenie, common law

EN

legal history, England, English law, common law, restitution, unjust enrich- ment

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
• Journal: Miscellanea Historico-Iuridica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 197-217

Dates

published

2015-01-01

Contributors

author

Jan Halberda