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
importance, though as yet it has received rather scanty recognition at the
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.
