Kleinwort, Sons & Company v Ungarische Baumwolle Indurstrie Atkiengesellschaft

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1939
Year1939
CourtCourt of Appeal
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51 cases
  • Rossano v Manufacturers' Life Insurance Company
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 7 March 1962
    ... ... 371 ) ... Kleinwort, Sons & Co. v. Ungarische Baumwolle Industrie ... ...
  • Overseas Union Bank Ltd v Chua Kok Kay and Another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 12 September 1992
    ...and the court has been invited to follow the decision in Kleinwort Sons & Co v Ungarische Baumwolle Industrie Aktiengesellschaft & Anor [1939] 2 KB 678 because the decision in Regazzoni v KC Sethia (1944) Ltd [1958] AC 301[1957] 3 All ER 286[1957] 3 WLR 752 was not canvassed before AP Rajah......
  • Toprak Mahsulleri Ofisi v Finagrain Compagnie Commerciale Agricole et Financière S.A.
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 January 1979
    ...at all. The place of performance was not Turkey. 12 This case is really governed by the later case of Kleinwort Sons & Co. v. Ungarische Baumwolle Industrie Aktiengsellschaft & anr. (1939) 2 King's Bench 678 where bills of exchange were to be given and cover was to be provided in London, b......
  • Deutsche Bank AG and Others v Unitech Global Ltd and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 20 September 2013
    ...by Ralli Brothers was considered by the Court of Appeal in Kleinwort Sons & Co. v Ungarische Baumolle Industrie Aktiengesellschaft [1939] 2 KB 678. In that case performance of an obligation was required in England but in order to perform that obligation funds had to be sent from Hungary whi......
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2 books & journal articles
  • CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1995, December 1995
    • 1 December 1995
    ...interpreted to mean “involves of necessity”, see Branson J. in Kleinwort, Son & Co. v. Ungarische Baumwolle Industrie Aktiengesellschaft[1939] 2 K.B. 678 at 687. 183 Emphasis added by the writer. 184 Emphasis added by the writer. 185 [1994] 2 S.L.R. 431 at 439. See also Overseas Union Bank ......
  • RESTITUTION, FOREIGN ILLEGALITY AND FOREIGN MONEYLENDERS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1996, December 1996
    • 1 December 1996
    ...Diamonds, supra, note 56. 65 See Bodley Head Ltd v Flegon[1972] 1 WLR 680, 688; Kleinwort Sons & Co v Ungarische Baumwolle Industrie AG[1939] 2 KB 678. See also Jones v Chatfield[1993] 1 NZLR 617, 625. 66 Supra, note 47, at 412. This passage itself is not without difficulty: if illegality b......

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