The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday June 20 1921

The Court of Appeal therfore on the 12tb of May last allowed the ;appeal which related to acts of the Russian Government on which the validity of the eo:trael and rights of property at issue in the case ultiniately depended. [...] possession of the powers of sovereignty in Russia the acts of that Government must be treated by the Courts of this country with all the respect due to the acts of a duly recognised foreign Sovereign State. [...] C.) it has been held that urgent need of money on the part of the borrower does n. Y of itself place the lender '' in a position to domnate the will " of the borrower. [...] 275 and 'there being nothing to show that the Defendant understood the real nature of the transaction the rate of interest being exhorbitamt and the consideration inadequate. [...] Their Lordships of the Privy Council 2:3 C. W. N. 233 just mentioned made tha following* weighty observations on the Pun-Chief Cofirt's finding of undue influence Assuming that the Plaintiff was in a position to dominate the will of the Defendant the latttr had utterly failed to love further that the Plaintiff had fn fact exercised undue influence upon him in any of the transactions out of which