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Machine generated contents note: The Subject Defined -- Meaning of "Country" -- "Private International Law" -- The Questions to be Answered -- Justification -- Range and Difficulty of the Subject, -- The Technique of the Subject -- The Need to Plead and Prove Foreign Law -- Some Technical Problems -...

Contents note continued: Other cases -- Penal Laws -- Revenue Laws -- Other Public Laws -- Concurrent jurisdiction: choice by the claimant -- Can the claimant's choice be challenged? -- General and special jurisdiction -- The Applicable Sets of Jurisdictional Rules -- The Brussels I Regulation -- Th...

Contents note continued: Consumer contracts -- Individual contracts of employment -- Choice of court or jurisdiction clauses -- Clauses selecting the courts of an EU Member State -- Consumer, insurance and employment cases -- Exclusive jurisdiction clauses naming the English courts -- Non-exclusive...

Contents note continued: Service on agent of overseas principal -- Submission -- Eetended Jurisdiction Under the Civil Procedure Rules -- Applicable principles -- Cases in which permission may be given -- General grounds -- Claims for interim remedies -- Claims in relation to contracts -- Contracts...

Contents note continued: Arbitration clauses -- Jurisdiction in Actions In Rem -- Foreign States -- State Immunity Act 1978 -- Exceptions to the immunity rule -- Indirect impleading -- Enforcement of foreign judgments -- FCC Execution -- Service of process -- Miscellaneous -- The scope of the doctri...

Contents note continued: Where jurisdiction exists -- The defendant's residence or presence in the foreign country -- Submission -- Where jurisdiction does not exist -- Defences -- Jurisdiction contrary to a jurisdiction agreement between the parties -- Fraud -- Contrary to public policy -- Contrary...

Contents note continued: Awards recognised or enforced under foreign judgments legislation -- Formalities of Marriage -- Scope of the rule -- Marriages by proxy -- Parental consent -- Renvoi -- Exceptions to the rule -- Use of the local form impossible -- Marriages in countries under belligerent occ...

Contents note continued: Marriages in England -- Change in the nature of the marriage -- Relevance of the personal law of the parties -- Domicile in England -- Domicile abroad -- Recognition of valid polygamous marriages in England -- Whether a bar to a subsequent monogamous marriage -- Matrimonial...

Contents note continued: European rules: decrees granted in other Member States -- Decrees granted in the British Isles -- Decrees granted elsewhere -- Requirements for recognition -- Recognition of non-proceedings divorces -- Requirements for recognition of non-proceedings divorces -- The country i...

Contents note continued: After a foreign decree -- Failure to maintain -- Maintenance in magistrates' courts -- Choice of law -- Enforcement of foreign maintenance orders -- Common law -- Orders made in Member States -- Orders from other parts of the United Kingdom -- Commonwealth arrangements -- Ju...

Contents note continued: Qualifications on the general rule: continuing jurisdiction in certain cases -- Which set of rules applies? -- The traditional rules -- Inherent jurisdiction -- The Children Act 1989 and "section 8 orders" -- Power to stay proceedings -- Removal of child from England -- Choi...

Contents note continued: Legitimation in English domestic law -- Statutory recognition of foreign legitimations -- The common law rule: legitimation by subsequent marriage -- Legitimation by parental recognition -- Legitimation by foreign statute -- Declarations of legitimation -- Adoption -- Jurisd...

Contents note continued: Freedom of choice and mandatory rules -- Incorporation (by reference) of foreign law -- Applicable law in the absence of choice: the Convention -- Disregarding the presumption: Article 4(5) -- Immovables -- Applicable law in the absence of choice: the Regulation -- Departing...

Contents note continued: Voluntary Assignment and contractual subrogation -- The law of the place of the tort -- Certainty or flexibility -- Before the Rome II Regulation -- The Rule in Philips v Eyre -- A more flexible approach -- The 1995 Act -- The Rome II Regulation -- Interpretation -- Scope --...

Contents note continued: Limits on the reach of the applicable law -- Actions in defamation -- The distinction between movables and immovables -- Examples -- Change in situs -- Immovables -- Jurisdiction over immovables -- Actions based on rights in rem -- Tenancies -- Claims in contract and concern...

Contents note continued: The situation of property -- The interpretation of the decree -- Recognition of the foreign act -- Property within the confiscating state -- Property outside the confiscating state -- Public policy -- Where there is no marriage contract or settlement -- Change in the matrimo...

Contents note continued: The law of the testator's nationality -- Wills made on ships and aircraft -- Changes in the relevant law -- Special requirements as to form -- Renvoi -- Material or essential validity -- Construction (or interpretation) -- Revocation -- Revocation by later will or codicil --...

Contents note continued: The subject-matter of characterisation -- Various solutions -- Lex fori -- Lex causae -- Analytical jurisprudence and comparative law -- An internationalist approach? -- Conclusions -- The incidental question -- Renvoi -- Nature of the problem -- The internal law solution --...

Contents note continued: Validity of marriage -- Public policy -- Theories -- Huber -- Savigny -- Story and the doctrine of comity -- Dicey and the theory of vested rights -- The local law theory -- Methods -- Jurisdiction-selecting rules or rule-selecting rules? -- Cavers -- Currie: governmental in...