‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎36] (359/578)

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PERSIA—APPEiNDiX NO. Vil—1828.
in. writing between the respective sub
jects in connection with their business
transactions shall be registered before
the Russian Consul and before the
Hakim (Civil Judge), and in places
where there may be no Consul, before
the Hakim alone, so that in case of
dispute between the two parties it
may be possible to make the necessary
investigation with a view to decide
the difference in conformity 'with jus
tice. If one of the two parties, with
out being provided with documents
drawn up and legalized as mentioned
above, which shall be valid before
either Court of justice, should wish to
institute an action against the other
by simply producing witnesses, such
claims shall not be admitted unless
the defendant himself should ack
nowledge their validity. Every en
gagement contracted between the res
pective subjects [of the two powers]
in the forms above prescribed shall
be scrupulously observed, and every
refusal to abide by it that might
occasion loss to one of the parties,
shall be visited with a proportionate
indemnity from the other party. In
case of the failure of a Russian mer
chant in Persia, his creditors shall
be paid out of the goods and effects
of the insolvent; but the Minister,
the Charge d’Affaires, or the Consul
of Russia shall not refuse their good
offices, if need be, to ascertain if the
insolvent has not left in Russia
disposable property which might
serve to satisfy the said creditors.
The friendly stipulations in the
present Article shall be reciprocally
observed with regard to Persian
subjects who trade in Russia
under fhe protection of the
laws.
ecrit entre les sujets respectifs pour leurs
affaires de commerce,, seront enregistres
chez le Consul de Russie et chez le Hakim
(juge civil) et la ou il ne se trouve pas dc
Consul, chez le Hakim seul, afin qu’en
cas de contestation entre les deux parties,
on puisse faire les recherches necessaires
pour decider la difference, conformement
a la justice. Si Tune des deux parties,
sans etre pourvue des documents dresses
et legalises comme il est dit plus haut,
lesquels seront valables par devant
chaque cour de justice, voulait intenter
un proems a 1’autre en ne produisant que
des preuves testimoniales, de telles pre
tentions ne seront point admises, a moins
que le defendeur iui-meme n’en recon-
naisse la legalite. Tout engagement
contracte entre les sujets respectifs dans
les formes ci-dessus prescrites sera re-
ligieusement observe, et tout refus d’y
satisfaire qui occasionnerait des pertes
a Tune des parties, donnera lieu
a une mdemnite proportionnelle, de la
part de Tautre. En cas de faillite d’un
negociant Russe en Perse, ses creanciers
seront payes des biens et effets du failli;
mais le Ministre, le Charge d’Affaires, ou
le Consul de Russie, ne refuseront pas
s’ils en etaient requis leurs bons offices
pour s’assurer si le failli n’a point laisse
en Russie, des proprietes disponibles, qui
puissent servir a satisfaire les memes
creanciers. Les dispositions arretees dans
le present article seront reciproquement
observees a 1’egard des sujets Persans
qui commercient en Russie, sous la pro
tection des loia.