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Law, foreign






Law, foreign

By foreign laws are understood the laws of a foreign country. The states of the American Union are for some purposes foreign to each other, and the laws of each are foreign in the others

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Foreign
That which belongs to another country; that which is strange.

Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.

States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.

Union
By this word is understood the United States of America; as, all good citizens will support the Union.

Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.



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Law, arbitrary
An arbitrary law is one made by the legislator simply because he wills it, and is not founded in the nature of things; such law, for example, as the tariff law, which may be high or low. This term is used in opposition to immutable.

Law, criminal
By criminal law is understood that system of laws which provides for the mode of trial of persons charged with criminal offences, defines crimes, and provides for their punishments.

Law, international
The law of nature applied to the affairs of nations, commonly called the law of nations, jus gentium; is also called by some modern authors international law.

Law, martial
Martial law is a code established for the government of the army and navy of the United States

Law, merchant
A system of customs acknowledged and taken notice of by all commercial nations; and those customs constitute a part of the general law of the land; and being a part of that law their existence cannot be proved by witnesses, but the judges are bound to take notice of them ex officio.

Law, municipal
Municipal law is defined by Mr. Justice Blackstone to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." This definition has been criticised, and has been perhaps, justly considered imperfect. The latter part has been thought superabundant to the first; see Mr. Christian's note; and the first too general and indefinite, and too limited in its signification to convey a just idea of the subject.

Law, penal
One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment

Law, positive
Positive law, as used in opposition to natural law, may be considered in a threefold point of view. 1.) The universal voluntary law, or those rules which are presumed to be law, by the uniform practice of nations in general, and by the manifest utility of the rules themselves. 2.) The customary law, or that which, from motives of convenience, has, by tacit, but implied agreement, prevailed, not generally indeed among all nations, nor with so permanent a utility as to become a portion of the universal voluntary law, but enough to have acquired a prescriptive obligation among certain states so situated as to be mutually benefited by it. 3) The conventional law, or that which is agreed between particular states by express treaty, a law binding on the parties among whom such treaties are in force.

Law, private
An act of the legislature which relates to some private matters, which do not concern the public at large.

Law, prospective
One which provides for, and regulates the future acts of men, and does not interfere in any way with what has past.

Law, public
A public law is one in which all persons have an interest

Law, retrospective
A retrospective law is one that is to take effect, in point of time, before it was passed.

Law, statute
The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed by the constitution; an act of the legislature.

Law, unwritten
Unwritten law or lex non scripta. All the laws which do not come under the definition of written law; it is composed, principally, of the law of nature, the law of nations, the common law, and customs.

Law, written
Law written or lex scripta. This consists of the constitution of the United States the constitutions of the several states the acts of the different legislatures, as the acts of congress, and of the legislatures of the several states, and of treaties.



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Law of the person
Lex Patriae. Wherever a person was a citizen, he/she had their "laws" follow them throughout the world. The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte promoted this approach in the first Civil Code of France (1804). He believed that the French Civil Code was superior to all other forms of law, and thus French citizens should benefit from it, wherever they were.

Law of the sea convention
The United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, adopted at Montego Bay, Jamaica, December 10., 1982 and in force November 16, 1994. This Convention was the product of nine years of work by the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1973-1982).

Law of the united kingdom
The statutes and regulations applicable to the whole of the United Kingdom, including European Union treaties and regulations, which are "directly applicable" in the U.K. as a Member-State of the E.U., as well as treaties made by the U.K. Government under the royal prerogative of the Crown.

Law, arbitrary
An arbitrary law is one made by the legislator simply because he wills it, and is not founded in the nature of things; such law, for example, as the tariff law, which may be high or low. This term is used in opposition to immutable.

Law, criminal
By criminal law is understood that system of laws which provides for the mode of trial of persons charged with criminal offences, defines crimes, and provides for their punishments.

Law, foreign

Law, international
The law of nature applied to the affairs of nations, commonly called the law of nations, jus gentium; is also called by some modern authors international law.

Law, martial
Martial law is a code established for the government of the army and navy of the United States

Law, merchant
A system of customs acknowledged and taken notice of by all commercial nations; and those customs constitute a part of the general law of the land; and being a part of that law their existence cannot be proved by witnesses, but the judges are bound to take notice of them ex officio.

Law, municipal
Municipal law is defined by Mr. Justice Blackstone to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." This definition has been criticised, and has been perhaps, justly considered imperfect. The latter part has been thought superabundant to the first; see Mr. Christian's note; and the first too general and indefinite, and too limited in its signification to convey a just idea of the subject.

Law, penal
One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment

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