Court of Appeal
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The Law of Torts
English appellate court whose dictum on sovereign and ambassadorial immunity from territorial jurisdiction is quoted.
“As a consequence of the absolute independence of every sovereign authority, and of the international comity which induces every sovereign state to respect the independence of every other sovereign state, each and every one declines to exercise by means of any of its Courts, any of its territorial jurisdiction over the person of any sovereign or ambassador of any other state, or over the public pr …
Lord Bramwell must have forgotten this authority when he said in the Court of Appeal that Rex v.
540, the Court refused to grant an interlocutory injunction to restrain a course of conduct alleged to amount to a conspiracy of rival shipowners to drive the plaintiffs’ ships out of the China trade.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The English appellate court below the House of Lords, whose judge-made rulings are shown both extending and later being reversed or doubted.
and the Court of Appeal is not bound to follow principles in favour of which nothing can be cited but judgments of the King’s Bench Division or of the older Courts of which the King’s Bench Division is the successor.
The Court of Appeal reversed his decision, and held that gross negligence was under the circumstances equivalent to fraud (ibid.
A decision of the Court of Appeal showed that such jurisdiction might exist (Niboyet v.