Sinclair v Brougham | |
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Court | House of Lords |
Citation | [1914] AC 398 |
Transcript | judgment |
Court membership | |
Judges sitting | Viscount Haldane LC Lord Dunedin Lord Atkinson Lord Parker Lord Sumner |
Laws applied | |
Overruled by | |
Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC [1996] | |
Keywords | |
Ultra vires, money had and received |
Sinclair v Brougham [1914] AC 398 is an English trusts law case, concerning the right of depositors to recover sums which were deposited (or loaned) to a building society under contracts of deposit which were beyond the powers of (ultra vires) the building society.