international property jurisdiction
Can I destroy foreign currency?
<p>In most countries it is illegal to destroy money, more precisely, their own currency. But what about foreign currency? Can I tear a dollar in the UK? Would it be against American or English law?</p>

<p>I should mention that I know that it is not illegal to destroy money in every country, my question is about countries where it is, like US and UK.</p>

<p>In France :</p>

<p>Besides a 1810 old law prohibiting the destruction of money (Code Pénal, <a href="https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticle=LEGIARTI000006490300&amp;cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006071029&amp;dateTexte=19940228" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Article Ancien 439</a>), this law was abrogated on <a href="https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexteArticle.do;jsessionid=3606047B3B41963F74B73EE635EB07B1.tpdila13v_2?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000177662&amp;idArticle=LEGIARTI000006491916&amp;dateTexte=19940228&amp;categorieLien=id#LEGIARTI000006491916" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the 1st of March, 1994</a>. This can be supplied by a <a href="http://www.juricaf.org/arret/FRANCE-COURDECASSATION-19750604-7390944" rel="nofollow noreferrer">case in the 4th of June, 1975</a> : destructing a bank note isn't considered as "destructing money" as such as destructing coins, which is prohibited, since "bank notes simply are monetary signs who aren't currently operating obligations (translation)".</p>
