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Usance
are drawn, to appoint for payment of them. If a foreign bill be drawn payable at sight, or at a certain … of exchange, sometimes set by custom but now usu. by law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1540.
Foreign Bill of Exchange
Foreign Bill of Exchange, a bill which is not an inland … of the (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882. By the law of merchants, the holder of a foreign bill is obliged
Foreign enterprise
Foreign enterprise, a 'foreign enterprise' is an enterprise situate in a … country having been created or registered in accordance with the law of such country, Petron Engineering Construction P. Ltd. v. Central
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International Law
to the practice, procedure, and rules of evidence in a foreign Court. Lib. 1, title 3, De Conflictu Legum, s. 2, … International Law. I. Public Law: The law of nations, strictly so called,
Fraud
the operation of the Act to something else which quite foreign to its object and beyond its scope.' (Craies on Statute … A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.). A
Personality of laws
Personality of laws. By the personality of laws, foreign jurists generally mean all laws concerning the condition, state, and … Personality of laws. By the personality of laws, foreign jurists generally mean all
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
any of the courts in England into any colony or foreign dominion of the Crown where his Majesty has a lawfully … answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty.
Act of State
of State' is an act done in relation to a foreigner by the sovereign power of a country or its agent … of State, Hirsch v.'Somervell, 62 TLR 592; Stroud's Dictionary of Law, Vol. 1, p. 38. The term Act of State does
Revendication
recognised to exist for seamen's wages and for repairs of foreign ships, and for salvage, Story's Confl. Of Laws, s. 401. … Revendication. Upon the sale of goods on credit, by the law of some commercial countries, a right is reserved to the
Re-exchange
of a bill occasioned by its being dishonoured in a foreign country in which it was payable. The existence and amount … of a bill of exchange in a foreign country, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284.
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