Trading  with  a  public  enemy  is  illegal  at  common  law ;  and  Trading
contracts  involving  such  illegality  are  void  (c) .     A  declara-  enemy,
tion  of  war  renders  it  tmlawful  to  buy  goods  in  the  enemy's

(ic)  Scarfe  v.  Morgan,  supra.  393  ;   24  L.  J.  Ex.  259.
(</)  Smith  T.  Sparrow,  i  Bing.  84;  (a)- St.  Cross  v.  Howard,  6  T.   R.
Williams  y.  Faul,  6  Bing.  653;   see  338.
Simpson  v.  Nicholls,  3  M.  &  "W.  244 ;  (*)  ^eepost,  p.  743.
5  ib.  702.  (c)  Fer  cur.  Potts  v.  Bell,  8  T.  R.
(s)  See  Sosseter  v.  Cahlmann,  8  Ex.  561 ;  Esposito  v.  Bowden,  7  E.  &  B.
361 ;   22  L.  J.  Ex.  128 ;  Bughes  v.  763 ;   27  L.  J.  Q.  B.  17 ;   see  ante,

Mumphrei/s,  3  E.  &  B.  954  ;   23  L.  J.  p.  464.
Q.  B.  356;  Jones  v.  Giles,   11  Ex.
648


'J'HE  MAITKR  OF  CONTRACTS.
Insuring
goods  of
enemy.
