Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights, and Remedies, and Especially in Regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions, and Judgments, Volume 2

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Little, Brown,, 1883 - Conflict of laws - 901 pages
 

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Page 23 - The true foundation on which the administration of international law must rest is that the rules which are to govern are those which arise from mutual interest and utility, from a sense of the inconveniences which, would result from a contrary doctrine, and from a sort of moral necessity to do justice in order that justice may be done to us in return.
Page 116 - 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 512 - 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 303 - the validity of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place where it is made...
Page 748 - ... all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or contract, without specialty, and all actions of debt for arrearages of rent, shall be commenced and sued within six years next after the cause of such action or suit, and not after.
Page 221 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 210 - The law of a country where a marriage is solemnized must alone decide all questions relating to the validity of the ceremony by which the marriage is alleged to have been constituted; but. as in other contracts, so in that of marriage, personal capacity must depend on the law of domicil...
Page 88 - Qui cum alio contrahit, vel est, vel debet esse non ignarus conditionis ejus...
Page 350 - ... contracts are to be construed and Interpreted according to the laws of the state In which they are made, unless, from their tenor, It Is perceived that they were entered into with a view to the laws of some other state.
Page 376 - In another is well settled. They are to be governed by the law of the place of performance, and, if the interest allowed by the law of the place of performance...

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