Citation:

Link to case on WorldLII (HOL).

Link to case on WorldLII (CSIH).

Rule of thumb: Where a contract is agreed, are any past draft relevant evidence of misrepresentations in the final contract? No, all past draft contracts are irrelevant evidence of misrepresentations & the final contract supersedes them all.

Judgment:

When a conveyance is agreed, all previous drafts of the contract are irrelevant evidence in interpreting the final contract agreed, ‘According to the law of Scotland, the execution of a formal conveyance, even when it expressly bears to be in implement of a previous contract, supersedes that contract in toto, and the conveyance thenceforth becomes the sole measure of the rights and liabilities of the contracting parties", Lord Watson, at 96

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