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.
Obligation founded on Delict is always the subject of such Imperious laws:
For instance, a German will can only be made with the assistance of a court.
Thus in a question of Ownership the law to be applied may be the lex loci rei Sitae.
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.