This is the case of Luther v. Sagor. British citizen Luther used to run the timber business in Soviet Russia. On June 20, 1918, the Russian Soviet Government allegedly issued a decree stating, among other things. That the Russian Federative Republic was the owner of all mechanical sawmills operated by limited or private companies with a capital of more than 1,000,000 roubles. Luther v Sagor (UK) 1921 Principle. Once a government is recognized, its acts will be granted as valid (by De-Facto recognization), even those prior to its recognition, known as the retrospective effect.; Act of state doctrine Fact. Luther was a British Citizen who used to run a Timber industry in Soviet Russia.
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Luther v. Sagor. - Volume 1. To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure
[email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Luther v. Sagor. Facts. The action was brought to establish the plaintiff company's right to a quantity of veneer or plywood which had been imported by the defendants from Russia.The plaintiffs' case was that they are a Russian company having a factory or mill at Staraja Russa in Russia for the manufacture of veneer or plywood, and that in the year 1919 the so-called Republican Government of. Luther v. Sagor has indeed been much overworked, chiefly because excessive attention has been devoted to the judgment of Scrutton L.J. at the expense of those of Bankes and Warrington L.JJ. Read in the light of the American authorities on which it is based, Luther v. Sagor refers only to acts of the executive, but not to legislation or judgments. State. That principle was considered in Luther v. Sagor to follow from an international obligation binding upon this country. This was also believed to be the attitude of the courts of the United States in a number of deeisions relied upon in Luther v. Sagor. Yet a British court, sitting in Aden in 1953, held that as the
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12 Luther v. Sagor [1921] 3 K.B. 532 Google Scholar; Princess Paley Olga v. Weisz [1929] 1 K.B. 718 Google Scholar; Re Banque des Marchands de Moscou (Koupetchesky), Royal Exchange Assurance v. State. That principle was considered in Luther v. Sagor to follow from an international obligation binding upon this country. This was also believed to be the attitude of the courts of the United States in a number of decisions relied upon in Luther v. Sagor. Yet a British court, sitting in Aden in 1953, held that as the 54 The courts have followed the well-known cases on tangible property: Luther v. Sagor [1921] 3 K.B. 532 Google Scholar and Princess Paley Olga v. Weisz [1929] 1 K.B. 718 Google Scholar; Re Russian Bank for Foreign Trade [1933] 1 Ch. 745; Cheshire v. Huth (1929) reported at (1946) 79 LI.L.R. 263 at 266 Google Scholar; Novella v. 14 See Luther v Sagor [1921] 3 KB 532; Princess Paley Olga v Weisz [1929] 1 KB 718; Jones, D Lloyd, ' Act of Foreign State in English Law: The Ghost Goes East ' (1981 -82) VaJIntlL 433 Google Scholar, 445; Mann (n 12) 53: 'the rule would be that English Courts must recognize the validity and legality of official acts of a foreign State.
Luther CASE LAW NOTES Luther v. Sagor The case of Luther v. Sagor is a wellknown case in
Luther v. Sagor, [1921] 3 K. B. at 541. Cf. also Raestad, loc. cit., p. 303 ff. 9. He specifically disagreed with Lord Sumner in Duff Development Co. Ltd. v. Government of Kelantan, [1924] A. C. 797,823-824, "that recourse to H. M. Government is only one way in which the judge can ascertain the relevant fact," and rejected an argument. 20 Aksionaimoye Obschestvo Dlia Mechanicheskoyi Obrabotky Diereva, A. M. Luther, v. James Sagor & Co., [1921] 1 K. B. 466.Google Scholar. 21 21 [1921] 3 K. B. 532.Google Scholar In Fenton Textile Association v. Krassin (1921), 38 T. L. R. 269, it was held that Krassin was not entitled to the usual diplomatic immunities.
In Luther v Sagor counsel for the appellants adopted the view that the debt in Oxholm's case was situated in England: "It was said in the Court below that a confiscatory decree of a government . . . would not be enforced here - Wolff v Oxholm, but that only applies where the property is situate in this. Eg, Luther v Sagor [1921] 1 KB 456. But see Lord Carrington's statement announcing that in future the British government would no longer expressly recognise governments. 1980, Hansard, House of Lords, Vol 408, cols 1121-1122. Cf R v Sec of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, ex parte Trawnik, The Times, April 18, 1985.
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Part V. The law as to recog-nized states is well established, but uncertain as to the unrecognized. 25 Co-LUMBIA LAW REVIEW . 544. See also "Effect of Soviet Decrees in American. Luther v. Sagor, 37 Times L. R. 777; Oetjen v. Central Leather Co., 246 U. S. 297; Underhill v. Hernandez, 168 U. S. 250. For redress left open: under treaty. The familiar and confusing distinction between de facto and de jure recog- nition is made even more confusing in a recent British decision, The Arant- zazu Mendi. The failure to understand the distinction between de facto recognition of a new state or government and de jure recognition, has been in. part caused by a careless use of terms.
