§ Sir WILLIAM BULLasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any British companies operating in Egypt, duly registered in England and conforming to the provisions of English company law, have been declared illegally constituted by the judgment of the mixed courts in Egypt during the last three years; and, if so, whether he will give the names of such companies and the grounds on which the mixed courts decided that these companies were illegal?
§ Sir E. GREYThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. In 1908 the Mixed Court of Appeal declared the City and Agricultural Lands of Egypt, Limited, to be null and nonexistent in law in Egypt, on the ground that, having been formed in Egypt, it had 2297W not complied with the requirements of Egyptian law as laid down in the Mixed Commercial Code. In May, 1910, the Mixed Court of First Instance declared the Helouan (Egypt) Development Company, Limited, to be non-existent in Egypt, as is believed on similar grounds.