A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws |
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acquire a domicil act of bankruptcy administration animus manendi apply Attorney-General bankrupt Bankruptcy Act born brings an action British dominions chap choice of law choses in action conflict of laws contract Court has jurisdiction creditor debt debtor deceased defendant determine divorce domicil of choice domicil of origin domiciled in England effect enforce English Courts English domicil English law entertain an action extra-territorial fact father foreign country foreign Court foreign judgment High Court immovables intention to reside jurisdiction to entertain L. J. Ch land law of England law of France lex domicilii lex fori lex loci contractus lex situs marriage means movables natural-born British subject Naturalization Act Niboyet parties personal property personam petition principle private international law probate question Rule Scotch Scotland semble situate in England sovereign SUB-RULE term tion Udny United Kingdom valid Vict Westlake words writ
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Page 169 - That, after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging, (although he be naturalized or made a denizen — except such as are born of English parents,) shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...
Page lxvi - Court, elsewhere, a bankruptcy notice under this Act, requiring him to pay the judgment debt in accordance with the terms of the judgment, or to secure or compound for it to the satisfaction of the creditor or the Court, and he does not, within seven days after service of the notice...
Page 429 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page xcvi - Provided that where an inland bill is indorsed in a foreign country the indorsement shall as regards the payer be interpreted according to the law of the United Kingdom. 3. The duties of the holder with respect to presentment for acceptance or payment and the necessity for or sufficiency of a protest or notice of dishonour, or otherwise, are determined by the law of the place where the act is done or the bill is dishonoured.
Page lxv - If in England or elsewhere he makes a conveyance or assignment of his property to a trustee or trustees for the benefit of his creditors generally : (b.) If in England or elsewhere he makes a fraudulent conveyance, gift, delivery, or transfer of his property, or of any part thereof...
Page 660 - Wherever, by either the common law or the statute law of a state, a right of action has become fixed and a legal liability incurred, that liability may be enforced and the right of action pursued in any court which has jurisdiction of such matters and can obtain jurisdiction of the parties.
Page 197 - Any child hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 100 - The political status may depend on different laws in different countries ; whereas the civil status is governed universally by one single principle, namely, that of domicil, which is the criterion established by law for the purpose of determining civil status. For it is on this basis that the personal rights of the party, that is to say, the law which determines his majority or minority, his marriage, succession, testacy, or intestacy, must depend.
Page 606 - Act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
Page 171 - Kingdom, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign state of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalization, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that state in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect.