The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1950] AC 57
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
ZIVNOSTENSKA BANKA NATIONAL CORPORATION APPELLANT; AND FRANKMAN RESPONDENT.
1949 June 22,
23,
27;
Oct. 20.
Oct. 20.
LORD SIMONDS, LORD NORMAND, LORD MACDERMOTT, LORD REID and LORD RADCLIFFE.
Banking
— Private international law
— Contract
— Deposit of bonds
— English office of foreign bank
— Foreign bonds deposited by head office on behalf of foreign national
— Devolution of title on naturalized British subject resident in England
— Claim for delivery of bonds 58in England to owner
— Refusal by bank
— Bank's conditions of business
— Construction
— System of law applicable
— Lex loci contractus
— Lex loci solutionis.