Research Catalog

Title

• Legal effects of war.

Author

McNair, Arnold Duncan McNair, Baron, 1885-1975

Publication

Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1948.

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Description

xxiii, 458 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Enemy property
• Friede, ..
• Impossibility of performance > Great Britain
• Krieg
• Noncitizens > Great Britain
• Trading with the enemy
• World War, 1939-1945 > Law and legislation > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What is war? -- British nationality and alien status -- Procedural status of alien enemies -- Contracts: general principles (excluding frustration) -- Civil status of enemies other than procedural and contractual -- Frustration of contract -- Trading with the enemy -- Particular contracts, affreightment -- Agency -- Bills of exchange and promissory notes: building contracts: shipbuilding contracts -- Companies -- Employment: guarantee -- Insurance of property and life -- Leases and tenancies: partnership -- Sale of goods -- Solicitor's retainer -- Effects of belligerent occupation of territory, part I -- Effects of belligerent occupation of territory, part II: effects of acts of wholly or partly dispossessed governments -- Effects of peace treaties upon private rights -- Appendix: I. Historical survey of procedural status of alien enemies -- II. Law Reform (frustrated contracts) Act, 1943: text -- III. Commentary on that Act by the present author, reprinted from Law Quarterly Review, 1944 -- IV. The requisitioning of merchant ships: article by the present author, reprinted from Journal of Comparative Legislation, 1945 -- V. Limitation (enemies and war prisoners) Act, 1945: text.

LCCN

^^^48004163^

OCLC

2589979

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library