The Weekly Law Reports
[1968] 3 WLR 893
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
UNITED DOMINIONS CORPORATION (JAMAICA) LTD. APPELLANT AND MICHAEL MITRI SHOUCAIR RESPONDENT
ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF JAMAICA
1968 March 20,
21,
25,
26;
May 14
May 14
VISCOUNT DILHORNE, LORD GUEST, LORD DEVLIN, LORD PEARCE and LORD PEARSON.
Jamaica
— Moneylender
— Memorandum
— Requirements of
— Not applicable to loans with interest of ten per cent. or less
— Original agreement enforceable
— Temporary variation in rate of interest
— Agreement for variation unenforceable
— Whether original agreement thereby becoming unenforceable
— Intention of parties equally important in moneylending transactions
— Whether temporary variation in rate of interest evidence of intention to rescind original agreement
—
Moneylending Laws (Laws of Jamaica, rev., 1953, cap. 254) s. 8.
Moneylender
— Memorandum
— Requirements of
— Not applicable to loans with interest of ten per cent. or less
— Original agreement enforceable
— Temporary variation in rate of interest
— Agreement for variation unenforceable
— Whether original agreement thereby becoming unenforceable
— Intention of parties equally important in moneylending transactions
— Whether temporary variation in rate of interest evidence of intention to rescind original agreement
—
Moneylenders Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 21)
s. 6
—
Moneylending Laws (Laws of Jamaica, rev. 1953, cap. 254) s. 8.