The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1950] AC 327
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
BOISSEVAIN APPELLANT; AND WEIL RESPONDENT.
1950 Jan. 16,
17;
Mar. 21.
Mar. 21.
LORD SIMONDS, LORD NORMAND, LORD MORTON OF HENRYTON, LORD MACDERMOTT and LORD RADCLIFFE.
Emergency legislation
— Currency control
— Loan of foreign currency during war
— Promise to repay in sterling after war
— Parties involuntarily resident in foreign country in military occupation of enemy
— Repudiation of transaction by borrower
— Illegality of loan
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Defence (Finance) Regulations, 1939 (St. R. & O. 1939, No. 1620), reg. 2, as amended by St. R. & O. 1940, No. 1484.