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Convention between the United Kingdom and France relative to Joint Stock Companies [1862] CATSer 1 (15 May 1862)

And His Majesty the Emperor of the French, M. Edouard Antoine Thouvenel, Senator, His Minister and Secretary of State for the Department for Foreign Affairs;

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:

ARTICLE I

The High Contracting Parties declare that they mutually grant to all companies and other associations, commercial, industrial, or financial, constituted and authorized in conformity with the laws in force in either of the two countries, the power of exercising all their rights, and of appearing before the tribunals, whether for the purpose of bringing an action, or for defending the same, throughout the dominions and possessions of the other Power, subject to the sole condition of conforming to the laws of such dominions and possessions.

ARTICLE II

It is agreed that the stipulations of the preceding Articles shall apply as well to companies and associations constituted and authorized previously to the signature of the present convention, as to those which may subsequently be so constituted and authorized.

ARTICLE III

The present Convention is concluded without limit as to duration. Either of the high Powers shall, however, be at liberty to terminate it by giving to the other a year’s previous notice. The two high Powers, moreover, reserve to themselves the power to introduce into the Convention, by common consent, any modifications which experience may show to be desirable.

ARTICLE IV

The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris in fifteen days, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

DONE in duplicate at Paris, the 30th of April, 1862.

Cowley

Thouvenel