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Renvoi, a term employed in private international law to denote the sending, or determination, of a matter to or according to the law of a tribunal outside the jurisdiction where the question arose. Apparently, the Courts of France, Italy and Germany will apply the law of nationality, as in England, applies the law of the domicil, the latter law appears to have been applicable under German law in Germany, Re Askew, Majoribanks v. Askew, (1930) 2 Ch 259; and Italy Re Ross, Ross v. Waterfield, (1930) 1 Ch 377; and in France, as to movables Re Annesley, Davidson v. Annesley, (1926) 2 Ch 692. See Bate on the Doctrine of Renvoi.Means 'sending back'. The doctrine under which a court in resorting to foreign law adopts as well the foreign law's conflict-of-laws principles, which may in turn refer the court back to the law of the forum, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1300....
renvoi
renvoi [French, act of sending back, reference, from Middle French, from renvoyer to send back] : the reference of a matter involving a conflict of laws to the law of the foreign jurisdiction involved including reference to the jurisdiction's rules governing conflicts of laws compare whole law ...
whole law
whole law : the entire body of laws of a state including its provisions for conflict of laws compare internal law, renvoi ...
Conflict of laws
Conflict of laws. In the case where a suit is brought in one country, and the parties, or one of them (or the subject-matter of the suit), belongs more or less to another, and the laws of the two countries upon the subject are at variance, there is said to be a conflict of laws. See LEX LOCI CONTRACTUS; and also the case of Simonin v. Mallac, (1860) 29 LJ Prob & Mat 97, where the marriage of two French persons who came to England for the express purpose of celebrating a marriage which would have been void if celebrated in their own country was declared valid. 'Either nation may refuse to surrender its laws to those of the other, and if either is guilty of any breach of the comitas or jus gentium, that reproach shall attach to the nation whose laws are least calculated to ensure the common benefit and advantage of all.' See Dicey's or Story's Conflict of Laws; Chitty on Contracts, citing Kaufman v. Gerson, (1904) 1 KB 591. See RENVOI and Halsbury, Laws of England, Hailsham ed., title Co...
Wills
Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a.Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing s. 91 of the Court of Probate Act, 1857:-There shall, under the control and direction of the High Court, be provided safe and convenient depositories for the custody of the wills of living persons, and any person may deposit his will therein.And see (English) Administration of Justice Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 26), s. 11, as to deposit of wills under control of the High Court.Law before 1838.-The right of testamentary aliena-tion of lands is a matter depending on Act of Parliament. Before 32 Hen. 8, c. 1, a will could not be made of land, and before the Statute of Frauds a will (see NUNCUPATIVE WILL) could be made by word of mouth...
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