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 Rh tribunal, it -would be held that the Statute of Limitations does not run during hostilities With regard to the second question raised, unfortunately there are no opinions or de cisions directly in point; but a few American cases require careful attention, as they deal with the legality of claiming after war inter est accrued on debts during it. ... The point which it is desired to make is. that when interest is stipulated on an instrucent till maturity, that interest should be pay able in any event. The interest up to ma turity is the consideration for the immediate use of money, not for any forbearance to sue, as no suit can be brought till then, except perhaps in certain special cases provided for in the deed or instrument. If the loan ma tures during the war and there is no agent to whom payment can be made, it is submitted that the correct view to take is that interest should run up to that date and then cease. Such a view is not in any way repugnant to the principles laid down in the dicta of the judges, though it is not sufficiently empha sized in Brown r. Hiatts, [15 Wall. p. 177], and is to a slight extent at variance with the judgment in Hoare v. Allen, [2 Dali. p. 102]. Should this doctrine meet with approval, then the effect on debentures is most impor tant- Sometimes debentures ar.e redeemable on demand, as when they are given to a bank to secure the company's overdraft, but us ually they are redeemable at some fixed date, such as five, ten, or twenty years from the date of issue, or upon the happening of cer tain events specified in the debenture or in the trust deed. It is submitted that in spite of the outbreak of war, interest will run up to the time fixed for payment. A difficulty may arise owing to a clause which is commonly inserted in debentures, whereby an option is given to the company to redeem at a slight premium at any time upon giving a certain number of months' notice. In such a case a company by giving notice just before the war might prevent interest running on deben tures held by enemy persons. What the re sult of such action would be it is difficult to say, but it is possible that the Courts would

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refuse to recognize the validity of such no tices, if they were clearly shown to be given only for the purpose of depriving the enemy debenture-holders of their interest and not in the ordinary course of the company's busi ness. As regards perpetual debenture stock it is conceived that the interest thereon will con tinue to run throughout the war. In considering the effect of war upon com mercial relations most of the jurists merely say that executed contracts are suspended so far as the right of action is concerned, execu tory contracts abrogated, and partnerships between enemies dissolved. . . . It has already been submitted that a share holder must continue to hold his shares. It is now submitted that he must remain a shareholder in fact and not only in name, and that he will be entitled to profits made and liable for losses incurred during the war. THE "Obeah" in Jamaica is the subject of an interesting paper by S. Leslie Thornton in current number of the Journal of the So ciety of Comparative Legislation. Regarded by those who believe in him as a sort of go-between them and the Evil One, the obeahman is usually nowadays only ap plied to when his clients are anxious to ac complish some unlawful desire, or to be re lieved from some evil which a personal ene my has induced the Evil One to inflict on them. A common occasion on which resort is had to an obeahman is when there is some pending litigation, civil or criminal. In such cases one of the parties approaches the obeahman with the view of getting him to exert his influence over the other party or his witnesses, or even the police or the judge, and so to bring success to his side. Some unmeaning ceremonies are solemnly gone through, a little gibberish talked, and after some special instructions suited to the needs of the case are given, the obeahman takes his fee. . . . To put a "duppy" or an evil spirit upon a person is the commonest form in which an