comitas legum
comitas legum (kom-[schwa]-t[schwa]s lee-g[schwa]m). [Law Latin] Hist. Comity of laws. See COMITY.
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private international law
International conflict of laws. • Legal scholars frequently lament the name “private international law” because it misleadingly suggests a body of law somehow parallel to public international law, when in fact it is merely a part of each legal system’s private law. — Also termed international private law; jus gentium privatum; intermunicipal law; comity; extraterritorial
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exhaustion of remedies
The doctrine that, if an administrative remedy is provided by statute, a claimant must seek relief first from the administrative body before judicial relief is available. • The doctrine’s purpose is to maintain comity between the courts and administrative agencies and to ensure that courts will not be burdened by cases in which judicial relief
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reciprocal laws
reciprocal laws 〈美〉互惠法律 在互惠条件下，保护另一州公民权利和利益的法律，如《扶养费相互执行法》〔Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act〕。(→comity)
territoriality
territoriality. Int’l law. The principle that a nation has the right of sovereignty within its borders. “Three maxims formulated by the seventeenth-century Dutch scholar Ulrich Huber undergird the modern concept of territoriality: (1) a state’s laws have force only within the state’s boundaries; (2) anyone found within the state’s boundaries is subject to the state’s