A Treatise on Private International Law: With Principal Reference to Its Practice in EnglandW. Maxwell & son, 1880 - 340 pages |
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... Considered in Special Connection with a Person Property Considered in Special Connection with a Person Forms of Acts , other than Judicial ones . Intrinsic Validity and Effects of Contracts . Judicial Proceedings Penal and Police Laws ...
... Considered in Special Connection with a Person Property Considered in Special Connection with a Person Forms of Acts , other than Judicial ones . Intrinsic Validity and Effects of Contracts . Judicial Proceedings Penal and Police Laws ...
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... considered . Its statute book , and the writings of those of its earlier sages whose names are revered as those of the law itself , are almost entirely blank on the head of foreign laws and judgments ; but maxims have been adopted by ...
... considered . Its statute book , and the writings of those of its earlier sages whose names are revered as those of the law itself , are almost entirely blank on the head of foreign laws and judgments ; but maxims have been adopted by ...
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... , and that what he considered to be natural was that the judges of that country should observe their own law , in accordance with the maxim si ibi forum ergo et jus . When however he 20 PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW . 20.
... , and that what he considered to be natural was that the judges of that country should observe their own law , in accordance with the maxim si ibi forum ergo et jus . When however he 20 PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW . 20.
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... we can appreciate the justification they felt for so doing . Disciples of Huber , who has been oftener quoted in England and the United States than on the continent of Europe , they considered 22 72 PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW .
... we can appreciate the justification they felt for so doing . Disciples of Huber , who has been oftener quoted in England and the United States than on the continent of Europe , they considered 22 72 PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW .
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... considered that in not deciding every case by the strict law of the land they , in the name of that law , were making a concession , but one which was dictated as well by a convenience amounting to necessity , as by deference to a ...
... considered that in not deciding every case by the strict law of the land they , in the name of that law , were making a concession , but one which was dictated as well by a convenience amounting to necessity , as by deference to a ...
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abroad according action administration appears applied arise assets assignment Att.-Gen authority bankrupt bankruptcy Beav British subject Brougham Campbell civil claim Code Napoleon Company contract Cranworth creditors Cresswell debt debtor deceased decided decision decree defendant determined divorce doctrine domicile domiciled in England duty effect enforced English court English law executor favour foreign judgment foreign law France governed grant ground Hagg held husband immovables indorser judge judicial jurisdiction land last domicile latter law of England lex domicilii lex fori lex loci actus lex loci contractus lex situs liable lord Lushington marriage matrimonial domicile maxim ment movable property national law Naturalization Act 1870 obligation opinion parties personal estate personal jurisdiction personal law personal statute plaintiff political nationality possession principle private international law probate proceedings question quoted referred regard residence Roman Romilly rule Savigny Scotch Scotland ship sovereign territory testator tion trustees United Kingdom validity
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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.