Private International Law and the Retrospective Operation of Statutes: A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws and the Limits of Their Operation in Respect of Place and Time

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Sayfa 319 - Upon principle, every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past, must be deemed retrospective.
Sayfa 491 - De sorte que toute la suite des hommes, pendant le cours de tant de siècles, doit être considérée comme un même homme qui subsiste toujours et qui apprend continuellement...
Sayfa 60 - 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.
Sayfa 96 - State; 6. If a person remove to another State with the intention of remaining there for an indefinite time, and as a place of present residence, he loses his residence in this State, notwithstanding he entertains an intention of returning at some future period; 7.
Sayfa 272 - No Will or other testamentary Instrument shall be held to be revoked or to have become invalid, nor shall the Construction thereof be altered, by reason of any subsequent Change of Domicile of the Person making the same.
Sayfa 73 - The comity thus extended to other nations is no impeachment of sovereignty. It is the voluntary act of the nation by which it is offered; and is inadmissible when contrary to its policy, or prejudicial to its interests. But it contributes so largely to promote justice between individuals, and to produce a friendly intercourse between the sovereignties to which they belong, that courts of justice have continually acted upon it, as a part of the voluntary law of nations.
Sayfa 95 - You may much more easily suppose, that a person having originally been living in Scotland, a Scotchman, means permanently to quit it and come to England, or vice versa, than that he is quitting the United Kingdom, in order to make his permanent home, where he must for ever be a foreigner, and in a country where there must always be those difficulties which arise from the complication that exists, and the conflict between the duties that you owe to one country, and the duties which you owe to the...
Sayfa 215 - Contraxisse unusquisque in eo loco intelligitur, in quo, ut solveret, se obligavit.' 3. L 1, 2, 3, de reb. auct. jud. (42, 5): 'Venire bona ibi oportet, ubi quisque defendí débet, id est — ubi domicilium habet — aut ubi quisque contraxerit. Contractum autem non utique eo loco intelligitur, quo negotium gestum sit, sed quo solvenda est pecunia.
Sayfa 258 - The use of these statutes of limitation is to preserve the peace of the kingdom, and to prevent those innumerable perjuries which might ensue if a man were allowed to bring an action for any injury committed at any distance of time. *Upon both these accounts the law r*ono therefore holds, that " interest rcipubltcœ ut sit finis litium...
Sayfa 96 - The third rule I shall extract is, that the original domicil, or, as it is called, the forum originis, or the domicil of origin, is to prevail, until the party has not only acquired another, but has manifested and carried into execution an intention of abandoning his former domicil and taking another as his sole domicil.

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