A Treatise on Private International Law: With Principal Reference to Its Practice in EnglandW. Maxwell & son, 1880 - 340 pages |
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... Actions for Trespass to Foreign soil Exterritoriality . 203 210 211 TORTS CHAPTER XI . 220 CHAPTER XII . CONTRACTS . 229 Formalities of Contracts Interpretation of Contracts . Intrinsic Validity and Effects of Contracts Obligations ...
... Actions for Trespass to Foreign soil Exterritoriality . 203 210 211 TORTS CHAPTER XI . 220 CHAPTER XII . CONTRACTS . 229 Formalities of Contracts Interpretation of Contracts . Intrinsic Validity and Effects of Contracts Obligations ...
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... action and irresistible to individual states , and the rules which are understood to compose that law are often so vague that the uniformity of their application cannot be conclusively tested , even for the purpose of argument , so ...
... action and irresistible to individual states , and the rules which are understood to compose that law are often so vague that the uniformity of their application cannot be conclusively tested , even for the purpose of argument , so ...
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... action , the strength of its irregular manifestations being sufficient for practical purposes . If then any- one ... action , those namely in which it is sought in what national jurisdiction an action ought to be brought , or by what ...
... action , the strength of its irregular manifestations being sufficient for practical purposes . If then any- one ... action , those namely in which it is sought in what national jurisdiction an action ought to be brought , or by what ...
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... action are that the subject of the action , if a thing , is situate , if a contract , was made , if a delict , was committed , within the territory : hence the forum situs , or rei sitæ , contractus , delicti , the two latter of which ...
... action are that the subject of the action , if a thing , is situate , if a contract , was made , if a delict , was committed , within the territory : hence the forum situs , or rei sitæ , contractus , delicti , the two latter of which ...
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... action is commenced being served on the defendant within the territory . This may have been regarded as a case of the forum rei , the defendant's mere presence within the territory being supposed to make him personally subject to the ...
... action is commenced being served on the defendant within the territory . This may have been regarded as a case of the forum rei , the defendant's mere presence within the territory being supposed to make him personally subject to the ...
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Page 290 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging, (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, — except such as are born of English parents), shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...
Page 155 - It is a clear proposition, not only of the law of England, but of every country in the world where law has the semblance of science, that personal property has no locality. The meaning of that is, not that personal property has no visible locality, but that it is subject to that law which governs the person of the owner...
Page 289 - Kingdom, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign State of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalisation, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that State in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect.
Page 217 - State, or by any judge or justice therein respectively, whereby the person of any ambassador or other public minister of any foreign prince or State, authorized and received as such by the President of the United States, or any domestic or domestic servant of any such ambassador or other public minister...
Page 54 - English law applicable to such a case. But the only principle applicable to such a case by the law of England is that the validity of Miss Gordon's marriage rights must be tried by reference to the law of the country where, if they exist at all, they had their origin. Having furnished this principle, the law of England withdraws altogether, and leaves the legal question to the exclusive judgment of the law of Scotland.
Page 288 - Majesty, and of this present Act, be adjudged and taken to be, and all such children are hereby declared to be natural-born subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever.
Page 75 - It is the strong inclination of my own opinion that the only fair and satisfactory rule to adopt on this matter of jurisdiction is to insist upon the parties in all cases referring their matrimonial differences to the courts of the country in which they are domiciled.
Page 206 - Where persons are sued as partners in the name of their firm, the writ shall be served either upon any one or more of the partners, or at the principal place within the jurisdiction of the business of the partnership upon any person having at the time of service the control or management of the partnership business there ; and, subject to these rules, such service shall be deemed good service upon the firm.
Page 293 - Where the father, or the mother being a widow, has obtained a certificate of naturalization in the United Kingdom, every child of such father or mother who during infancy has become resident with such father or mother in any part of the United Kingdom, [or with such father while in the service of the Crown out of the United Kingdom "] , shall be deemed to be a naturalized British subject.
Page 306 - We confine our judgment to a case where the party owed allegiance to the country in which the judg McEwan v. Zimmer. ment was so given against him, from being born in it, and by the laws of which country his property was, at the time those judgments were given, protected. The debts were contracted in the country in which the judgments were given, whilst the debtor resided in it.