Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn
Edward Strathearn Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, of Drumearn in the County of Stirling PC ( * April 10, 1814; † August 21, 1879 ) was a Scottish- British politician and the Conservative Party lawyer, who for several years a deputy in the House of Commons and most recently as one of the first two Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer was also a member of the House of Lords.
Life
MP, Lord Justice and the House of Lords member
Gordon, son of Major graduated after school to study law at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh in 1835 and received his legal approval to the Scottish Bar Association ( Faculty of Advocates ). He then began working as a barrister and was later 1858-1866 Richter ( Sheriff) of Perthshire.
On December 2, 1867 Gordon, who was previously 1866-1867 Solicitor General of Scotland, was first elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for Members in the House of Commons and represented there until November 17, 1868 the constituency Thetford. During this time he was in 1867 as a successor to George Patton to his replacement by James Moncreiff 1868 first Attorney-General (Lord Advocate) of Scotland and in 1868 received the title of Kronanwalts (Queen 's Counsel ).
After he was elected to the House of Commons on November 22, 1869 for the Conservative Party again to MPs and there the constituency of Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities represented by 31 October 1876, he became in 1869 head of the Scottish Bar Association ( Dean of Faculty of Advocates ) and remained in this position until 1874. then acted Gordon, who by 1874 Privy Councillor, was 1874-1876 as the successor of George Young for the second time as a Scottish Lord Advocate. 1876 followed the former Solicitor General of Scotland, William Watson as the new Lord Advocate.
Last Blackburn was appointed by Letters patent dated October 17, 1876 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer with the title Baron Gordon of Drumearn, of Drumearn in the County of Stirling as a member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until his death in 1879, the Law Lords (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary). He was next to Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn to the first two judges, Lord, in 1876 a member of the upper house were due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act.
Significant judgments as Lord Justice
During his tenure as Lord Justice, he worked with some decision such as:
- Brogden v Metropolitan Railway Company (1877 ): In this procedure, from the English law of contract, it was decided that a contract may also be assumed by the parties' conduct. At this decision had next to Lord Chancellor Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns with the former Lord Chancellor Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley and Baron Blackburn.
- Hughes v Metropolitan Railway Co ( 1877): In this method the first time on the forfeiture ( estoppel ) a promissory note has been decided. The judgment unfolded its effect over many years and was only renewed by the process Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd (1947).
- Erlanger v New Sombrero Phosphate Co ( 1878): In this procedure, from the law of contract, it was also about issues Company Law ( Company Law ). It dealt with the withdrawal due to deception and the question of how the impossibility of reparation can be an opportunity to resign. It is also an important example of how are representative of a company in a fiduciary relationship ( Fiduziarität ) to customers and subscribers. Lord Blackburn represented in this process, the majority opinion.