New Developments in Mistake of Identity

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-2139|19|1|86-102

ISSN: 0008-1973

Source: Cambridge Law Journal, Vol.19, Iss.1, 1961-04, pp. : 86-102

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Abstract

It was only six years ago that C. J. Slade wrote his memorable article “The Myth of Mistake in the English Law of Contract” in which he placed the whole subject of mistake in a new and agreeable perspective. “Mistake as such,” he declared, “has no operative effect whatever at law.”