‘TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS Signed at Lausanne on July 24, 1923, together with Agreements between Greece and Turkey signed on January 30, 1923, and Subsidiary Documents forming part of THE TURKISH PEACE SETTLEMENT.’ [36r] (76/260)
The record is made up of 1 volume (126 folios). It was created in 1923-1924. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Article 79.
All periods whatever of prescription or limitation of right of
action, wheth^ 1 they began to run before or after the outbreak of
war, shall be treated, in the territory of the High Contracting
Parties so far as regards relations between enemies, as having been
suspended from the 29th October, 1914, until the expiration of
three months after the coming into force of the present Treaty.
This provision applies, in particular, to periods of time allowed
for the presentation of interest or dividend coupons, or for the
presentation for payment of securities drawn for redemption or
repayable on any other ground.
As regards Roumania, the above-mentioned periods shall be
considered as having been suspended as from the 27th August,
1916.
Article 80.
As between enemies no negotiable instrument made before the
war shall be deemed to have become invalid by reason only of
failure within the required time to present the instrument for
acceptance or payment, or to give notice of non-acceptance or
non-payment to drawers or endorsers, or to protest the instrument,
nor by reason of failure to complete any formality during the war.
When the period within which a negotiable instrument should
have been presented for acceptance or payment, or within which
notice of non-acceptance or non-payment should have been given
to the drawers or endorsers, or within which the instrument should
have been protested, has expired during the war, and when the
party who should have presented or protested the instrument or
given notice of non-acceptance or non-payment, has failed to do so
during the war, a period of three months from the coming into force
of the present Treaty shall be allowed within which the presenta
tion, notice of non-acceptance or non-payment, or protest may be
made.
Article 81.
Sales effected during the war in order to realise pledges or mort
gages created before the war as security for debts which have become
payable, shall be deemed valid, although it may not have been
possible to perform all the formalities required for notifying the
debtor, subject to the express right of the said debtor to summon the
creditor before the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal to render accounts,
failing which the creditor will be liable to be cast in damages.
It shall be the duty of the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal to settle the
accounts between the parties, to investigate the conditions under
which the property pledged or mortgaged was sold, and to ortfir the
creditor to make good any loss suffered by the debtor as a result of
the sale if the creditor acted in bad faith or if he did not take all
steps in his power to avoid having recourse to a sale or to cause the
sale to be conducted in such conditions as to ensure the realisation
of a fair price.
The present provision is applicable only between enemies and
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A printed copy of the Treaty of Peace with Turkey, commonly referred to as the Treaty of Lausanne. The treaty was signed on 24 July 1923 and formally ended the conflict between the Ottoman Empire and other nations (including Great Britain) that had begun at the onset of the First World War. The volume was printed and published by HM Stationery Office, London, 1923 (Treaty Series No. 16 (1923). Cmd. 1929). The treaty is printed in the French original and English translation.
The treaty is divided into seventeen sections (numbered I-XVII): I. Treaty of Peace; II. Straits Convention; III. Convention respecting the Thracian frontier; IV. Convention respecting conditions of Residence and Business and Jurisdiction; V. Commercial Convention; VI. Convention concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed at Lausanne January 30, 1923; VII. Agreement between Greece and Turkey respecting the reciprocal restitution of interned civilians and the exchange of prisoners of war, signed at Lausanne 23 January 1923; VIII. Declaration relating to the Amnesty; IX. Declaration relating to Muslim properties in Greece; X. Declaration relating to sanitary matters in Turkey; XI. Declaration relating to the administration of justice in Turkey; XII. Protocol relating to certain concessions granted in the Ottoman Empire; XIII. Protocol relating to the accession of Belgium and Portugal to certain provisions and instruments signed at Lausanne; XIV. Protocol relating to the evacuation of the Turkish territory occupied by the British, French and Italian forces; XV. Protocol relating to the Karagatch [Karaağaç] territory and the Islands of Imbros [Gökçeada] and Tenedos [Bozcaada]; XVI. Protocol relating to the Treaty concluded at Sèvres between the principal Allied Powers and Greece on August 10, 1920, concerning the protection of minorities in Greece, and the Treaty concluded on the same day between the same Powers relating to Thrace; XVII. Protocol relating to signature by the Serb-Croat-Slovene State.
The volume also includes copies of correspondence relating to the treaty, including letters exchanged between the High Commissioner to Constantinople, Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, who signed the Treaty of Lausanne on behalf of the British Government, and the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ismet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Mustafa İsmet İnönü]. A map of those parts of southeastern Europe affected by the treaty is also enclosed in the volume (f 126).
The volume is accompanied by a loose folio (f 128), entitled ‘NOTE ON THE TREATY OF PEACE (TURKEY) BILL, 1924.’, originally presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament. The note was printed and published by HM Stationery Office, London, in 1924.
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- 1 volume (126 folios)
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The volume’s contents are listed at the front of the volume (ff 2-3), and refer to the volume’s original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 128, these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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