Convention for the settlement of certain conflicts of laws in connection with cheques (Geneva, 19.III.1931)

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CONVENTION

for the settlement of certain conflicts

of laws in connection with cheques

Geneva, 19.III.1931

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Article 1

The High Contracting Parties mutually undertake to apply, for the settlement of the conflicts of laws hereinafter mentioned, in connection with cheques, the rules set out in the following Articles.

Article 2

The capacity of a person to bind himself by a cheque shall be determined by his national law. If this national law provides that the law of another country is competent in the matter, this latter law shall be applied.

A person who lacks capacity, according to the law specified in the preceding paragraph, is nevertheless bound if his signature has been given in any territory in which, according to the law in force there, he would have the requisite capacity.

Each of the High Contracting Parties may refuse to recognise the validity of a contract by means of a cheque entered into by one of his nationals which would not be deemed valid in the territory of the other High Contracting Parties otherwise than by means of the application of the preceding paragraph of the present Article.

Article 3

The law of the country in which the cheque is payable determines the persons on whom a cheque may be drawn.

If, under this law, the instrument is not valid as a cheque by reason of the person on whom it is drawn, the obligations arising out of the signatures affixed thereto in other countries whose laws provide otherwise shall nevertheless be valid.

Article 4

The form of any contract arising out of a cheque is regulated by the laws of the territory in which the contract has been signed. Nevertheless, it shall be sufficient if the forms prescribed by the law of the