Tripartite Claims Commission, United States, Austria, and Hungary: Court Deposits V. 1

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1 Tripartite Claims Commission, United States, Austria, and Hungary: Court Deposits I (1928)

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TRIPARTITE CLAIMS COMMISSION

(UNITED STATES, AUSTRIA, AND HUNGARY)

COURT DEPOSITS

An Austrian statute under certain conditions authorizes a debtor to discharge
his debt by depositing the amount thereof in court at the risk and subject
to the disposition of the creditor. Held: Such a court deposit made prior
to July 16, 1920, of the amount of a pre-war debt payable in Austria owing
by an Austrian debtor to an American creditor operated as a discharge
and extinguishment of the debt, which for the purposes of the Treaty of
Vienna ceased to exist as of the date of the deposit.

(July 24, 1928.)

3440-28 U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFIFE: 1928