Bench: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE R. MAHADEVAN
House of Lords of Westminster Bank, Ltd. v. Osler (15th November, 1932) [(1933) A.C. 139.], where the bank surrendered certain holdings of National War Bonds in exchange for other Government securities and the Crown claimed tax oil the excess value of the substituted over the original securities. The question was whether these transactions were the equivalent of a realisation