Hearings
England & Wales
31 Oct 2003 [2003] EWCA Civ 1634; [2004] Ch 66; [2004] 2 WLR 426; [2004] 4 All ER 238, CA
29 Mar 2004 (pet dis) [2004] 1 WLR 1026, HL(E)
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council v Torkington
Subject Matter
DEED — Execution — Delivery — Conveyance of lease by local authority — Negotiations with purchaser marked “subject to contract” — Seal of local authority affixed to lease in anticipation of exchange — Purchaser failing to sign and return counterpart of lease — Whether lease “deemed to have been executed” — Whether deemed execution including or obviating need for delivery — Whether lease delivered as an escrow — Law of Property Act 1925, s 74