 | Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 1190 pages
...it, arc to be determined by that general law which the parties intended to govern the transaction, or rather by which they may justly be presumed to have bound themselves. Prima facie, the law of the place where a contract is made is that which * Coram Erle, CJ, Pollock,... | |
 | Law - 1866 - 722 pages
...it, are to be determined by that general law which the parties intended to govern the transaction, or rather by which they may justly be presumed to have bound themselves. 1'rima facie, the law of the place where a contract is made is that which the parties intended, or... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Admiralty - 1868 - 602 pages
...be guided in its solution by a steady application of the general principle already stated, namely, that the rights of the parties to a contract are to be judged of by that law by which they intended to bind, or rather by which they may justly be presumed to have bound themselves. We must apply this... | |
 | Friedrich Karl von Savigny - Conflict of laws - 1869 - 434 pages
...'The general principle is, that the rights of the parties to a contract are to be judged of by the law by which they intended, or rather by which they...may justly be presumed, to have bound themselves.' ' It is generally agreed that the law of the place where the contract is made is, primd facie, that... | |
 | Friedrich Karl von Savigny - Conflict of laws - 1869 - 440 pages
...90, 2 Bell Com. 690; Robertson v Burdekin, 1843, 6 D. 17, 1 Ross LC 812. 'The general principle is, that the rights of the parties to a contract are to be judged of by the law by which they intended, or rather by which they may justly be presumed, to have bound themselves.'... | |
 | Friedrich Karl von Savigny - Conflict of laws - 1880 - 592 pages
...' The general principle is, that the rights of the parties to a contract are to be judged of by the law by which they intended, or rather by which they...may justly be presumed, to have bound themselves.' ' It is generally agreed that the law of the place where the contract is made is, primd facie, that... | |
 | Frederic Philip Maude, Charles Edward Pollock - Maritime law - 1881 - 956 pages
...without any express stipulation, it was held that the owner might exercise this right, upon the ground that the rights of the parties to a contract are to be judged of by that law by which they may justly be presumed to have bound themselves, and that in the case before the Court was the law... | |
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We must, therefore, deal with it as a new question, and endeavour to be guided in its solution by a steady application of the general principle already stated, viz., that the rights of the parties to a contract are to be judged of by that law by which... 
