Raleigh Investment Co., Ltd. vs Governor-General In Council. on 9 April, 1943
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United Arab Republic And Anr. vs Mirza Ali Akbar Kashani on 17 April, 1961
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suit against a foreign state is not entertained and no decree is passed against a foreign state unless the foreign state submits to such jurisdiction ... determined in my judgment by the test whether such decrees by their nature of being foreign Court judgments are at all executable, and this goes
implied contract to pay the amount of the foreign judgment. Under the English Common Law, a foreign judgment though creating an obligation that was actionable ... United Kingdom to allow such decrees to be registered or not. The policy of facilitating the direct enforcement of foreign judgments in England received
ignored. It is submitted that these awards are foreign
awards which take effect as decrees of Court. The learned Senior Counsel has
referred ... Supp (2) SCC 280 for the proposition that the
awards and decrees are binding on the parties. Recognition alone may be asked
Governor-General in Council which has authorized British Indian Courts to execute decrees of Civil and Revenue Courts established in Cooeh Behar. On that ... Civil Procedure Code relating to transfer of decrees for execution in my judgment apply only to decrees made by British India Courts and transferred
foreign
currency and the Delhi High Court passed a decree in terms of the award
simpliciter, without fixing a date for conversion of the foreign ... money
expressed in a foreign currency can legitimately be claimed by the plaintiff
and decreed by the court. That is the law as has been
Court in a foreign country and it seems to have been suggested earlier in these proceedings that a foreign Court could not possibly transfer ... govern any decrees made by a foreign Court and would not allow that foreign Court to transfer such decrees to a Court in the Dominion
counsel for the respondents further submits that the concept
of reciprocity of decrees of Courts is not available in respect of arbitral
awards, which ... footing as decrees of this Court. As such, the reciprocity
concept in respect of decrees applies full-fledged in respect of foreign awards
as well
found is that while under the Foreign
Awards Act a decree follows, under the new Act the foreign award
is already stamped as the decree ... disposed of, the
foreign award does not become enforceable as such. He reiterates, under
section 47 foreign awards are stamped decrees, as declared by Supreme