Delacroix and Cambiasco v Egypt

• Jurisdiction: Egipto
• Court: Court of Appeal (Egypt)
• Date: 15 February 1936

Mixed Court of Appeal

Cambiaso and Delacroix, Commissioners of the Egyptian Public Debt and Others

and

Egyptian Government

Treaties — Operation of — Competence to interpret Treaties — Interpretation of National Laws Partaking of the Nature of a Treaty.

See Delacroix & Cambiasco & Others v. Egyptian Government, decided by the Mixed Court of Appeal on February 15, 1936. The Court reversed the judgment of the Civil Tribunal of Cairo of January 21, 1933, reported in Annual Digest (1933–1934). Case No. 184. The Court of Appeal adopted to a large extent the contention of the Egyptian Government that not only were the Mixed Courts without jurisdiction in the present case, but that all Egyptian courts were without jurisdiction in any action concerning a State loan (63 Clunet (1936), p. 997; see also a critical note ibid., pp. 999–1004). Compare a decision of the Commercial Tribunal of the Seine (Annual Digest...