| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 840 pages
...vs. Ecarle, 13 I'eters, 581.) 4. In the silence of any positive rule, affirming, or d ,,nyiuIr, ur restraining the operation of foreign laws, courts...the tacit adoption of them by their own government, mi i - - they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its interest. It i-, not the comity of... | |
| Law - 1834 - 518 pages
...its known policy, or prejudicial to its interests. In the silence of any positive rule, affirming, or denying, or restraining the operation of foreign laws,...tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its interests. It is not the comity of the courts,... | |
| William Mawdesley Best - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1845 - 232 pages
...for the purpose. Code de Procédure Civile, lib. 3, tit. 10, art 193 tu 213. Story, " affirming or denying, or restraining the operation of foreign laws,...tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its inlerests."(e) " So," says Professor Greenleaf,... | |
| Law - 1845 - 540 pages
...on one important presumption. ' In the silence of any positive rule,' says Dr. Story, ' affirming or denying, or restraining the operation of foreign laws,...tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its interests.' (story, Conflict of Laws, chap.... | |
| Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...truly said, in Story's Conflict of Laws, 37, that " In the silence of any positive rule, affirming, or denying, or restraining the operation of foreign laws,...tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its interests. It is not the comity of the courts,... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...exist among nations as well as among individuals, and in the silence of any positive rule, affirming or denying or restraining the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to... | |
| John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 pages
...its knoxvn policy, or prejudicial to its mtt-rests. In the silence of any positive rule, alhrming, or denying, or restraining the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tucit adoption of (hem hy their own government, unless repugnant to its policy. It is nut the comity... | |
| William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1854 - 930 pages
...on one important presumption. " In the silence of any positive rule," says Dr. Story, " affirming or denying, or restraining the operation of foreign laws,...tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its interests (q)." So, says Professor Greenleaf,... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...interests. In the silence of any positive rule affirming or denying, or restraining the operations of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy or prejudicial to its interests. It is not the comity of the courts,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...adds, "in the silence of any positive rule affirming or denying or restraining the operation of the foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own Government, unless they are repugnant to its policy or prejudicial to its interests." (See also 2 Kent Com., p. 457; 13... | |
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