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001 E1848
008 090401t1993 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
035 _a(Sirsi) u36035
041 _aeng
245 _aG A Estates Ltd v Caviapen Trustees Ltd
260 _c1993
350 _a0
490 _aScots Law Times
_v1993 1051-1065(15)
520 _aContract - building contract - construction - extent of warranties - warranty of fitness of site - warranty that plans appropriate for erection of soundly designed and constructed buildings - whether included allegedly inadequate culvert for diversion of burn - whether contra proferentem rule applicable. Prescription - negative prescription - interruption of prescriptive period - counterclaim averring breaches of various warranties in contract raised prior to expiry of prescriptive period - deletion of averments in respect of certain warranties - reintroduction of deleted averments more than five years after lodging of counterclaim but within five years of deletion - whether claim relating to one obligation had any effect on prescription of another obligation in same contract - whether obligations extinguished - Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (c 52), s 6(1).
690 _aBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION-CASE LAW
942 _n0
948 _c04/03/1997
999 _c23538
_d23538