International Private Law
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Private International law · comity of nations · conflict of laws · private international law
spoken of as
1 expressionPrivate International Law2 mentions
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom (English) · Institutes of Roman Law (English)
English jurisprudence was, no doubt, very little affected by this assumption, but English lawyers occasionally come across the inferences from it when they have to deal with Private International law, or, in other words, with the conditions upon which one community will recognise and apply a portion of the jurisprudence of another.
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The body of rules determining which territorial law governs a legal relation, termed the comity of nations.
The rules of which the above are a specimen constitute what is called the Comity of nations or Private international law.
Exceptions to most of the preceding rules are produced not only by general variations in principle between the administration of Private International Law in different states but also by the existence of Imperious and Anomalous laws:
The question of the Forum before which a suit must be instituted and of the particular Law which such Forum must administer may arise (1) within the limits of a single state when divided, like the Roman empire, into municipalities with separate jurisdictions and, to a certain extent, separate laws:
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The body of law governing recognition of foreign jurisprudence, linked to Roman legal classification.
English jurisprudence was, no doubt, very little affected by this assumption, but English lawyers occasionally come across the inferences from it when they have to deal with Private International law, or, in other words, with the conditions upon which one community will recognise and apply a portion of the jurisprudence of another.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A modern branch of jurisprudence invoked by McKechnie as analogous to the medieval conflict-of-laws problems arising among England, Wales, and the marches.
Interesting questions of a nature analogous to those treated by the branch of modern jurisprudence known as International Private Law must constantly have arisen.