Comity - Law Dictionary Search Results
equity
equity pl: -ties [Latin aequitat- aequitas fairness, justice, from aequus equal, fair] 1 a : justice according to fairness esp. as distinguished from mechanical application of rules [prompted by considerations of ] [comity between nations, and...
exhaustion of remedies
jurisdiction NOTE: The doctrine of exhaustion of remedies was first developed by judges in case law based on comity. It is used primarily in administrative law cases and federal habeas corpus cases, and it is now incorporated
federalism
the constituent units (as states) involving esp. the allocation of significant lawmaking powers to those constituent units compare comity, full faith and credit, states' rights
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Extradition
that criminals should not go unpunished and on that account it is recognised as a part of the comity of nations that one State should ordinarily afford to another State assistance towards bringing offenders to justice, Rosiline
International Law
is permanent or temporary, are to be deemed subjects thereof: and that the rulers of every empire, from comity, admit that the laws of every people, in force within its own limits, ought to have the same
Private International law
private international law of each State must, therefore, in the very nature of things differ, but by the comity of nations certain rules are recognised as common to civilised jurisdictions. Through part of the judicial system of
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