Frankman v Prague Credit Bank

Subject Matter

INTERNATIONAL LAW — Private international law — Deposit by Prague bank at its London office of Czechoslovakian bonds on behalf of Czech national — Devolution of title to bonds on naturalized British subject — Refusal to deliver bonds in England to present owner — Delivery prohibited by Czechoslovakian law — Lex loci contractus — Lex loci solutionis — Bretton Woods Agreements Acts, 1945 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 19), preamble, s. 3 — St. R. & O. 1946, No. 36, para. 3, sch., part 1.

[1948] 1 KB 730; [1948] 1 All ER 337, KBD

INTERNATIONAL LAW — Private international law — Deposit by Prague bank at its London office of Czechoslovakian bonds on behalf of Czech national — Devolution of title to bonds on naturalized British subject — Refusal by bank to deliver bonds in England to present owner — Conditions of business of bank — Construction of — System of law applicable — Lex loci contractus — Lex loci solutionis.

[1949] 1 KB 199; [1948] 2 All ER 1025; (1948) 92 SJ 705, CA

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 in England to owner — Refusal by bank — Bank's conditions of business — Construction — System of law applicable — Lex loci contractus — Lex loci solutionis.

[1950] AC 57; [1949] 2 All ER 671, HL

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