 | Law - 1834 - 518 pages
...which appear to be recognised and settled in the jurisprudence of the common law. 'Generally speaking, the validity of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place, where it is made. If valid there, it is by the general law of nations, jure gentium, held valid every where,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1835 - 568 pages
...legislative authority, as matter of public police and regulation. foreign Contracts. Generally speaking, the validity of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place where it is made. If valid there, it is, by the general law of nations, gine gentium, held valid every where,... | |
 | Law - 1836 - 596 pages
...correct result of them, with respect to the validity of foreign contracts. — " Generally speaking, the validity of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place where it is made. If valid there, it is by the general law of nations, jure gentium, held valid every where,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Conflict of laws - 1841 - 966 pages
...different doctrine, viz., that the lex loci contracts is to govern 3. § 242. (1). Generally speaking, the validity of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place where it is made. If valid there, it is, by the general law of nations, (jure gentium), held valid every... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 752 pages
...argument presented by the majority. Continuing, Judge STORY says : (sec. 242,) "Generally speaking, the validity of a contract is to be decided by the...unless it is to be performed in another country." This contract (the payment of the money mentioned in the notes) was to be performed in Tennessee, and... | |
 | Joseph Story - Conflict of laws - 1846 - 1148 pages
...different doctrine, viz. that the Lex loci contractus is to govern.4 § 242. (1.) Generally speaking, the validity of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place, 1 The learned reader, who wishes for farther instruction as to the opinions of foreign jurists on all... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 556 pages
...innumerahilm." 1 hut. Lib. 1, tit. 2, see 2. The first proposition we assert is this — as a general rule the validity of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place where it is made ; if valid there, it is by the general law of nations held valid every where, by the tacit... | |
 | Joseph Story - Bills of exchange - 1847 - 704 pages
...possess himself of the main elements, belonging to this invalidity of contracts. Generally speaking, the validity of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place, where it is made. If valid there, it is, by the general law of nations, jure gentium, held valid everywhere,... | |
 | George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...law of the situs is to govern, naturally leads to the conclusion that the validity of the execution of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place where it is executed, and not by any foreign law. And all acts- done in court or out of court, whether testamentary... | |
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