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Security for money applied in payment of the company’s legitimate debts

It is also a general principle of equity that those who pay legitimate demands which they are bound in some way or other to meet, and have had the benefit of other people’s money advanced to them for that purpose, shall not retain that benefit so as, in substance, to make those other people pay their debts.

BANK OF WEST AFRICA LTD. v. APPENTENG AND ANOTHER [1972] 1 GLR 153 [1971] SLR (CA) 30 · Court of Appeal · 1971 · SIRIBOE JSC

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