ABSTRACT
Natal Land & Colonisation Co Ltd v Pauline Colliery & Development Syndicate Ltd (1904) PC This action was brought by the respondent company for specific performance of an agreement to lease mining rights from the appellant company. The respondent company was not incorporated until January 1898, yet the agreement was entered into in December 1897 ostensibly between the appellant company’s agent and an individual acting on behalf of the unincorporated business syndicate which was forming and promoting the respondent company.
