Der Wirtschaftskrieg

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Identifikator:: 1024656551

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-49829

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Der Wirtschaftskrieg

Edition:: Zweite, nach dem Stande vom 31. Juli 1915 ergänzte Auflage

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Verlag der Niederösterreichischen Handels- und Gewerbekammer

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (II, 171, V Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XI. Britisches Reich

Collection:: Economics Books

89 whether for valuable consideration or otherwise, have any rights or remedies against any party to the In strument unless he proves that the transfer was made before the commencement of the present war, and any party to the Instrument who knowingly discharges the instrument shall be deemed to be guilty of trading with the enemy within the meaning of the principal Act: Provided that this subsection shall not apply where the transferee, or some subsequent holder of the instrument, proves that the transfer, or some subsequent transfer, of the Instrument was made before the nine- teenth day of November, nineteen hundred and fourteen, in good faith and for valuable consideration. (3) Nothing in this seetion shall be construed as validating any assignment, delivery or transfer which would be invalid apart from this seetion or as applying to securities within the meaning of seetion eight of this Act. 7. Eight to pay into court sums due on Coupons suspected of being enemy property. Where during the continuance of the present wa r any Coupon or other security transferable by delivery is presented for payment to any Company, municipal authoritby, or other body or person, and the Company, body or person has reason to suspect that it is so presented on behalf or for the benefit of an enemy, or that since the commencement of the present war it has been held by or for the benefit of an enemy, the Company, body or person may pay the sum due in respect thereof into the High Court, and the same shall, subject to rules of court, be dealt with according to the Orders of the court, and such a payment shall for all purposes be a good discharge to the Company, body or person. (v. p. 100.) 8. Invalidity of transfer of shares in Company, &c. (1) No transfer made after the passing of this Act by or on behalf of an enemy of any securities shall confer on the transferee any rights or remedies in respect thereof and no Company or municipal authority or other body by whom the securities were issued or are managed shall, except as herein after appears, take any cognizance of or otherwise act upon any notice of such a transfer: (2) No entry shall hereafter, duringthe continuance of the present war, be made in any register or branch register or other book kept in the United Kingdom of any transfer of any securities Hierein registered, inscribed or standing in the name of au enemy, except by leave of a court of competent jurisdiction or of the Board of Trade. (3) No share warrants payable to bearer shall be issued during the continuance of the present war in respect of any shares or stock registered in the name of any enemy. (4) If any Company or any body contravenes the provisions of this seetion the Company or body shall be liable on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, and every director, manager, secretary or other officer of the Company or body who is knowingly a party to the default, shall be liable on the like conviction to a like fine or to imprisonment, with or with out hard labour, for a term not exceeding six raonths. (5) For the purposes of this seetion the expression “securities” means any annuities, stock, shares, deben- tures, or debenture stock issued by or on behalf of the Government or by any municipal or other authority or by any Company or by any other body which are registered or inscribed in any register, branch register or other book kept in the United Kingdom. 9. Condition as to the incorporation of new Companies. (1) During the continuance of the present war a certificate of incorporation of a Company shall not be given by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies until there has been filed with him either— a) a statutory declaration by a solicitor of the Supreme Court, or, in Scotland, by an enrolled law agent, engaged in the formation of the Company, that the Company is not formed for the purpose or with the Intention of acquiring the whole or any pari of the undertaking of a person, firm or Company the books and documents of which are liable to inspection under subsection (2) of seetion two of the principal Act; or b) a licence from the Board of Trade authorising the acquisition by the Company of such an undertaking. (2) Where such a statutory declaration has been filed it shall not be lawful for the Company, during the continuance of the present war, without the licence of the Board of Trade, to acquire the whole or any pari of any such undertaking, and if it does so the Company shall, without prejudice to any other liability, be liable on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, and every director, manager, secretary, or other officer of the Company who is knowingly a party to the default shall on the like conviction be liable to the like fine or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding six months. 10. Additional provisions as to trading with enemy. (1) Seetion one of the principal Act shall apply to a person who during the present war attempts, or directly or indirectly öfters or proposes or agrees, or has since the fourth day of August nineteen hundred and fourteen attempted or directly or indirectly offered or proposed or agreed, to trade with the enemy within the meaning of that Act in like manner as it applies to a person who so trades or has so traded. (2) If any person without lawful authority in anywise aids or abets any other person, whether or

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