The clauses that mostly come up for notice in the
Courts have usually to do with the agreement of
the parties providing for either the cancellation of
the contract, or, else, a suspension of the deliveries
thereunder. It is proposed to collect the present
war decisions under the first of these heads at this
stage.
(1) Clauses providing for Cancellation
(i) In one of the first war cases to be noted [Scheepvaart

Providing

for can- Maatschappij Gylsen v. North African Coaling Com-
ceilation. pan ^ m6> m L T ^-j the defendants agreed to

supply to vessels belonging to the plaintiffs, a firm
of shipowners, bunker coal at Algiers. The contract,
which was a pre-war form of contract, contained a
clause providing that " in the event of war, hostilities,



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or other hindrance of any kind whatever beyond the Con ( t ^,,t«
control of the suppliers, affecting the normal working clauses."
of the contract, the suppliers shall, during the con-
tinuance of those events, and until normal conditions
again prevail, be relieved from all obligations under
the contract. If Great Britain shall be engaged in goods.
