A New Resolution? Unilateral Promises and Davies v Cassie [2025] CSOH 36

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Brown, Jonathan (2025) A New Resolution? Unilateral Promises and Davies v Cassie [2025] CSOH 36. Scots Law Times, 20. pp. 169-175. ISSN 0036-908X

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Abstract

Comments upon the decision of the Outer House of the Court of Session in Davies v Cassie [2025] CSOH 36. Suggests that albeit that the Lord Ordinary ostensibly founded upon Lord Gill's requirement of 'clear words' in the constitution of any unilateral promise in Scots law, in fact the judgment is consistent with Viscount Stair's typology of 'acts of the will'. Hence, it is not that the words of the putative promisor in this case lacked sufficient 'clarity' to amount to a 'promise': rather, the words used signified mere 'resolution', and not the necessary 'engagement' required to constitute a binding juridical act.

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