'Treaty of Peace with Turkey. Signed at Sévres, August 10, 1920. [With Maps.]' [‎46v] (72/112)

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Article 306.
As between enemies no negotiable instrument made before the war shall be deemed
to have Lome invalid by reason only of failure within the reqmred time to present the
instrument for acceptance or payment, or to give notice ot non-acceptance or m.n-
payment to drawers or endorsers, or to protest the instrument, nor by reason of
failure to complete any formality during the war. .
Where the period within which a negotiable instrument should have been presented
for acceptance or for payment, or within which notice of non-acceptance or non-payment
should have been given to the drawer or endorser, or within which the instrument should
have been protested, has elapsed during the war, and the party who should have presented
or protested the instrument or have given notice of non-acceptance or non-payment has
failed to do so during the war, a period of not less than three months from the coming
into force of the present Treaty shall be allowed within which presentation, notice ot
non-acceptance or non-payment or protest may be made.
Article 307.
Judgments given or measures of execution ordered during the war by any Turkish
judicial or administrative authority against or prejudicially affecting the interests of a
person who was at the time a national ot an Allied Power or against or affecting the
interests of a company in which such an Allied national was interested shall be subject to
revision, on the application of that national, by the Arbitral Commission provided for in
Article 287. Where such a course is equitable and possible the parties shall be replaced
in the situation which they occupied before the judgment was given or the measure ot
execution ordered by the Turkish authority. W here that is not possible, the national of
an Allied Power who has suffered prejudice by the judgment or measure of execution
shall be entitled to recover such compensation as the Arbitral Comgiission may consider
equitable, such compensation to be paid by the Turkish Government.
Where a contract has been dissolved by reason either of failure on the part of either
party to carry out its provisions or of the exercise of a right stipulated in tne contract
itself the party prejudiced may apply to the Arbitral Commission. This Commission
may grant compensation to the prejudiced party, or may order the restoration of any
rights in Turkey which have been prejudiced by the dissolution wherever, having regard
to the circumstances of the case, such restoration is equitable and possible.
Turkey shall compensate any third party who may be prejudiced by any restitution
or restoration effected in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
Article 308.
All questions relating to contracts concluded before the coming into force of the
present Treaty between persons who were or have become nationals of the Allied Powers
or of the new States whose territory is detached from Turkey and Turkish nationals shall
be decided bj the national Courts or the consular Courts of the Allied Power or new
State of which one of the parties to the contract is a national, to the exclusion of the
Turkish Courts.
Article 309.
Judgments given by the national or consular Courts of an Allied Power or new
state whose territory is detached .from Turkey, or orders made by the Arbitral Commission
provided for in Article 287, in all cases which, under the present Treaty, they are com
petent to decide, shall be recognised in Turkey as final, and shall be enforced without it
being necessary to have them declared executory.
ANNEX.
I.—General Provisions.
1.
parties to'LontracTshafi 1“. T ^ 306 and ° f the P rovisions of this Annex, the
pa ties to a contract shall be regarded as enemies when trading* between them became
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