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International - From: 1200 To: 1799

This page lists 4 cases, and was prepared on 08 August 2015.


 
 Calvin's case; 1606 - (1608) Co Rep 1a; 77 ER 377
 
Robinson -v- Bland (1760) 2 Burr 1077
1760

Wilmot J
International, Jurisdiction, Contract
The plaintiff brought an action on a bill of exchange given in Paris in payment of gaming debts. By English law the debt was unenforceable but the plaintiff alleged that in France the debt could be enforced in a Court of Honour. Held: Wilmot J: "I cannot help thinking, that where a person appeals to the law of England, he must take his remedy according to the law of England, to which he has appealed."
1 Citers


 
Solomons -v- Ross (1764) 1 H Bl 131n
1764

Bathurst J
Insolvency, International
A firm in Amsterdam was declared bankrupt and assignees were appointed. An English creditor brought garnishee proceedings in London to attach £1200 owing to the Dutch firm. Held: The court decreed that the bankruptcy had vested all the firm's moveable assets, including debts owed by English debtors, in the Dutch assignees. The English creditor had to surrender the fruits of the garnishee proceedings and prove in the Dutch bankruptcy. The Dutch curator was entitled to recover the English debt in priority to an English creditor of the merchants who had attached the debt after the bankruptcy.
1 Citers


 
Triquet -v- Bath (1764) 3 Burr 1478
1764

Lord Mansfield
Constitutional, International
For a servant of a minister of a foreign country to claim protection against prosecution, it is not necessary for him to show every incident of such service, it is enough for him to show actual bona fide service. Where such service is established on affidavit, "we must not, upn bare suspicion only, suppose it to have been merely colourable and collusive."
1 Citers


 
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