Bourbonism - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bourbonismBourbonism
The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon obstinate conservatism...
Bourbonist
One who adheres to the house of Bourbon a legitimist...
Bourbon whisky
See under Whisky...
VerbarFaham
The leaves of an orchid Angraecum fragrans of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius used in France as a substitute for Chinese tea...
Royalist
An adherent of a king as of Charles I in England or of the Bourbons in france one attached to monarchical government...
International Law
International Law. I. Public Law: The law of nations, strictly so called, was in a great measure unknown to antiquity, and is the slow growth of modern times, under the combined influence of Christianity, intercourse, commerce and war.II. Private Law (Conflict of Laws): It is plain that the laws of one country can have no intrinsic force, proprio vigore, except within the territorial limits and jurisdiction of that country. They can bind only its own subjects and others who are within its jurisdictional limits; and the latter only while they remain therein. No other nation, or its subjects, is bound to yield the slightest obedience to those laws. Whatever extra-territorial force they are to have is the result not of any original power to extend them abroad, but of that respect which, from motives of public policy, other nations are disposed to yield to them, giving them effect, as the phrase is, sub mutu' vicissitudinis obtentu, with a wise and liberal regard to common convenience and ...
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