A Treatise on Private International Law: With Principal Reference to Its Practice in EnglandW. Maxwell & son, 1880 - 340 pages |
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... evidence , the evidence on this question might be very different in one country to what it might be in another : " in Wilson v . Wilson , quoted above under § 40. The remark on the uncertainty attending the fact of domicile suggests the ...
... evidence , the evidence on this question might be very different in one country to what it might be in another : " in Wilson v . Wilson , quoted above under § 40. The remark on the uncertainty attending the fact of domicile suggests the ...
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... evidence of the fact of domicile : provided also that the value of such personal estate and effects situated in England or Ireland re- spectively shall be separately stated in such inventory , and such inventory shall be impressed with ...
... evidence of the fact of domicile : provided also that the value of such personal estate and effects situated in England or Ireland re- spectively shall be separately stated in such inventory , and such inventory shall be impressed with ...
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... evidence of the law of the domicile , and that it is therefore not sufficient to aver the judgment , out those who propound the document must aver its execution according to the law of the domicile . Isherwood v . Cheetham , 1862 , 7 ...
... evidence of the law of the domicile , and that it is therefore not sufficient to aver the judgment , out those who propound the document must aver its execution according to the law of the domicile . Isherwood v . Cheetham , 1862 , 7 ...
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... evidence of experts . The currency in which a legacy is given must in general be interpreted to be that of the testator's domicile , though the context of the will , or the situation of the funds on which the legacy is expressly charged ...
... evidence of experts . The currency in which a legacy is given must in general be interpreted to be that of the testator's domicile , though the context of the will , or the situation of the funds on which the legacy is expressly charged ...
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... evidence is governed by the lex fori - see above , pp . 9 , 38 — which had best be expressed in the words of lord Brougham on a Scotch appeal . " It by no means follows that where a sentence of a foreign court is offered in evidence in ...
... evidence is governed by the lex fori - see above , pp . 9 , 38 — which had best be expressed in the words of lord Brougham on a Scotch appeal . " It by no means follows that where a sentence of a foreign court is offered in evidence in ...
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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.