Judgment[1988] KECA 137
Case law
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Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…There had been a dispute for some considerable time between the Common Law of England and Merchantile Law as to the meaning of a month; the Common Law initially preferring a lunar month of 28 days, and Merchantile Law preferring…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…The first is that at common law, by which this Court is guided on contract, (see the Law of Contract Act (cap 23) specific performance of a contract of service has never been ordered.…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsConstitutional Petition
…Under the Common Law of England there was one sentence only which could be judicially pronounced upon a defendant convicted of murder and that was sentence death.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…The obligations or duties arise from the common law, they said, and the workman may elect to sue his employer on contract or in tort.…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…stereotyped allegations of negligence which can be found in any standard text book on pleadings and in the pleadings in m9ost of the accident actions brought in any of the countries of which Kenya is one, which apply the common…
…law.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The purpose of a trial within a trial has been stated again and again in England and in the various countries which apply the common law.…