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Effect of Prorogation Clauses in International Contracts1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

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2 Usually termed a “derogation clause”.

3 See Ehrenzweig, A. A., Conflict of Laws (West Publishing Co., 1962) §§41, p. 147.Google Scholar

4 Dicey, , Conflict of Laws, 7th ed., rule 203, sub-rule, p. 1085.Google Scholar

6 [1957] 1 W.L.R. 815; [1957] 2 All E.R. 707.

6 [1958] 1 All E.R. 333.

7 In this respect the Court fully endorsed MacKinnon's, L.J. views expressed in Racecourse Betting Control Board v. Secretary of State for Air [1944] 1 All E.R. 60Google Scholar; 113 L.J. Ch. 129.

8 Under rr. 467(5)(a) and 467(5)(c) of the new Israel Rules of Procedure, 1963. (While the submission to the “proper law” of Israel is expressly provided for; we doubt whether this is the case for submission to Israel jurisdiction.)

9 Cf. Johnson v. Machielsne (1811) 3 Camp. 44, 170 E.R. 1300, where Lord Ellenborough expresses his views as to the propriety of clauses of jurisdiction imposed by the authorities.

10 See Hoerter v. Hanover Caoutchouc, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works (1893), 10 T.L.R. 22, 103, (C.A.).

11 (1965) 19 P.D. Vol. 1, p. 303.

12 Supra, n. 6.

13 (1963) 17 P.D. 646. (For a full commentary by the author on this case, see (1963) 20 HaPraklit, 24.)

14 Cohn J. also stressed the penal and discriminatory character of the decree.

15 [1939] 4 All E.R. 16.

10 Supra, n. 7.

17 Sussmann J. expressly adopted this proposition in his detailed judgment, op. cit., at p. 165.

18 Cf. Oppenheimer v. Louis Rosenthal Co., [1937] 1 All E.R. 23, 25–26, where Slesser J. makes use of the term.