Janson v Driefontein Consolidated Mines: 1902

Lord MacNaghten said: ‘the law recognises a state of peace and a state of war, but . . it knows nothing of an intermediate state which is neither the one thing nor the other – neither peace nor war.’

Judges:

Lord Macnaghten

Citations:

[1902] AC 484

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedAmin v Brown ChD 27-Jul-2005
The defendant raised as a preliminary point the question of whether the claimant, an Iraqi, was an enemy alien, and therefore debarred from bringing proceedings to recover.
Held: Under modern law it could not be a requirement that a state of . .
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Updated: 13 May 2022; Ref: scu.230006