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Choice of law
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Choice of lawIn the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the law applicable to one or more of the legal issues to be decided.
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Conflict
The opposition or difference between two judicial jurisdictions, when they both claim the right to decide a cause, or where they both declare their incompetency.
Principles
By this term is understood truths or propositions so clear that they cannot be proved nor contradicted, unless by propositions which are still clearer. They are of two kinds, one when the principle is universal, and these are kuown as axioms or maxims; as, no one can transmit rights which he has not; the accessory follows the principal, &c. The other class are simply called first principles.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Issues
English law. The goods and profits of the lands of a defendant against whom a writ of distringas or distress infinite has been issued, taken by virtue of such writ, are called issues.
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Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Choice of jurisdiction
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the proper jurisdiction for instituting legal proceedings.
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Chirographer
A word derived from the Greek, which signifies "a writing with a man's hand."
Chirographic creditor
An unsecured creditor.
Chivalry
Ancient English law. This word is derived from the French chevelier, a horseman. It is. the name of a tenure of land by knight's service.
Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Choice of jurisdiction
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the proper jurisdiction for instituting legal proceedings.
Choice of law
Chose in action
A right of property in intangible things or which are not in one's possession, enforceable through legal or court action . Examples may include salaries, debts, insurance claims, shares in companies and pensions.
Christian
One who believes or assents to the doctrines of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, or who, being born of Christian parents or in a Christian country, does not profess any other religion, or does not belong to any one of the other religious divisions of man. Hale v. Everett, 53 N.H. 50 (1868). See Name, 1.
Christianity
The religion established by Jesus Christ.
Chronological
Arranged in the order in which events happened; according to date.
Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).
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Conflict
The opposition or difference between two judicial jurisdictions, when they both claim the right to decide a cause, or where they both declare their incompetency.
Principles
By this term is understood truths or propositions so clear that they cannot be proved nor contradicted, unless by propositions which are still clearer. They are of two kinds, one when the principle is universal, and these are kuown as axioms or maxims; as, no one can transmit rights which he has not; the accessory follows the principal, &c. The other class are simply called first principles.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Issues
English law. The goods and profits of the lands of a defendant against whom a writ of distringas or distress infinite has been issued, taken by virtue of such writ, are called issues.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Choice of jurisdiction
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the proper jurisdiction for instituting legal proceedings.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Chirographer
A word derived from the Greek, which signifies "a writing with a man's hand."
Chirographic creditor
An unsecured creditor.
Chivalry
Ancient English law. This word is derived from the French chevelier, a horseman. It is. the name of a tenure of land by knight's service.
Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Choice of jurisdiction
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the proper jurisdiction for instituting legal proceedings.
Choice of law
Chose in action
A right of property in intangible things or which are not in one's possession, enforceable through legal or court action . Examples may include salaries, debts, insurance claims, shares in companies and pensions.
Christian
One who believes or assents to the doctrines of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, or who, being born of Christian parents or in a Christian country, does not profess any other religion, or does not belong to any one of the other religious divisions of man. Hale v. Everett, 53 N.H. 50 (1868). See Name, 1.
Christianity
The religion established by Jesus Christ.
Chronological
Arranged in the order in which events happened; according to date.
Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).
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