Personal property that, having been acquired in a non-community-property state, would have been community property if acquired in a community-property state. • If a community-property state is the forum for a divorce or administration of a decedent’s estate, state law may allow the court to treat qua-si-community property as if it were community property when […]
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minimum contacts. A nonresident defendant’s forum-state connections, such as business activity or actions foreseeably leading to business activity, that are substantial enough to bring the defendant within the forum-state court’s personal jurisdiction without offending traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice. International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 66 S.Ct. 154 (1945). —
renvoi (ren-voy), n. [French “sending back”] 1. The doctrine under which a court in resorting to foreign law adopts as well the foreign law’s conflict-of-laws principles, which may in turn refer the court back to the law of the forum. [Cases: Action 17. C.J.S. Actions §§ 18–20; Conflict of Laws§§ 2–3, 12, 15, 20, 23,
locus rei sitae (loh-k[schwa]s ree-IsI-tee), n. [Latin “place where a thing is situated”] Civil law. The rule that the place where the land is located is the proper forum in a case involving real estate.
whole law. The law applied by a forum court in a multistate or multinational case after referring to its own choice-of-law rules. [Cases: Action 17. C.J.S. Actions §§ 18–20; Conflict of Laws§§ 2–3, 12, 15, 20, 23, 27–32, 34–40, 42–48, 50–65, 96–97, 100, 102, 105–107.]
Content-based discrimination in which the government targets not a particular subject, but instead certain views that speakers might express on the subject; discrimination based on the content of a communication. • If restrictions on the content of speech are reasonable and not calculated to suppress a particular set of views or ideas, a governmental body
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Abstention that a bankruptcy court can, but need not, exercise in a dispute that relates to the bankruptcy estate but that can be litigated, or is being litigated, in another forum. • In deciding whether to abstain, the bankruptcy court must consider (1) the degree to which state law governs the case, (2) the appropriateness
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internal affairs of a foreign corporation. Conflict of laws. Matters that involve only the inner workings of a corporation, such as dividend declarations and the selection of officers. [Cases: Corporations 640. C.J.S. Corporations §§ 893, 900.] “The old statement that a court will not hear cases involving the internal affairs of a foreign corporation has
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community property. Assets owned in common by husband and wife as a result of its having been acquired during the marriage by means other than an inheritance or a gift to one spouse, each spouse generally holding a one-half interest in the property. • Only nine states have community-property systems: Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada,
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consent to be sued. Agreement in advance to be sued in a particular forum. See COGNOVIT CLAUSE. [Cases: Corporations 662; States 191; United States 125. C.J.S. Corporations § 941; States §§ 196–197, 202, 297–307, 314; United States §§ 217–226, 228–230, 234–239, 247.]
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