“…roactively affect transactions entered into by the previously recognised government in the United States with US nationals, and to AM Luther v James Sagor & Co [1921] 3 KB 532. In Luther v Sagor actions taken within Russia before the date on which the Soviet government was accorded de facto recognition were treated as effective by th…”
“…t be borne in mind is that recognition may be either de jure or de facto. The difference between these two kinds of recognition was explained in Luther v Sagor [1921] 3 KB 532 at 543 and 551, citing Wheaton, International Law (5th ed, 1916), and was reiterated in Mahmoud v Breish at [45]:…”
“…In Aksionairnoye Obschestvo Dlia Mechanicheskoyi Obrabotky Diereva A.M. Luther v James Sagor & Co [1921] 3 KB 532 the Soviet Russian government had expropriated the plaintiff’s sawmill and timber by a decree in June 1918, and by its agents sold some of the timber to the de…”