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12. The Conflict of Laws.
Professor Minor.
As the facilities of commerce and intercourse between the various
States and countries of the world increase, this subject becomes of graver
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hands of text-writers and law-schools.
The course includes a discussion of the nature and various kinds of
domicil; the law governing status, and the conveyance of personal property
abroad; the validity, construction, and effect of foreign wills, successions,
and administrations; foreign marriages and divorces; transactions relating
to real estate; the execution, interpretation, and validity of foreign
contracts; the law governing the effect of foreign judgments in rem or in
personam; the recovery of damages for foreign torts; the situs of crimes;
the application of the lex fori; and the modes of pleading and proving
foreign laws.—March 25 to end of session—Three times a week.
Text-Book.—Minor on Conflict of Laws; The Professor's Notes.
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