ALLGEMEINE VERSICHERUNGS GESELLSCHAFT HELVETIA v. ADMINISTRATOR OF GERMAN PROPERTY.

(1930) 37 Ll L Rep 292

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Roche.

Reprisals Order, 1915 - Consignment of enemy goods per neutral vessel-Goods seized and detained under order of British Prize Court - Goods insured with neutral underwriters against war risks - Abandonment of goods to underwriters on payment for total loss - Right of underwriters to recover proceeds from Administrator of Enemy Property - Effect of Trading with the Enemy (Amendment) Act, 1914, Sect. 6 - Held, that the abandonment effected an assignment; but that property detained and the proceeds of property sold under the Reprisals Order, 1915, were not affected by Sect. 6, in that (a) the Trading with the Enemy (Amendment) Act, 1914, did not reach or bind the Crown; and (b) that Act was not part of the law to be applied to property which was the subject of the Reprisals Order - Judgment for underwriters.