The Law Reports (King's Bench Division)
[1949] 1 KB 482
[COURT OF APPEAL]
BOISSEVAIN
v.
WEIL
1948 Dec. 10,
13.
Tucker, Asquith and Denning L.JJ.
Currency (control of)
— Loan of foreign currency
— Promise to repay in sterling after the 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 (1.), as amended by Order of 1940, No. 1484
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Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6, c. 62), s. 3, sub-s. 1 (b).