 | Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 724 pages
...circumstances, our courts should refuse to recognize the validity of the assignment. The general principle, that the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the place where the contract is made, is The United States v. The Bank of the United States. too... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 714 pages
...here, founded on the provisions of the new constitution of Georgia, is without any force whatever. The validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the place where it was made, and by the law which was in force when it was made. If the contract... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1852 - 782 pages
...it is solemnized, ia good everywhere. Sometimes this doctrine has been referred to the general one that the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the place in which it is made.6 " Some writers," observes Dr. Radcliff, i Burn e. Farrar, 2 Hagg.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 718 pages
...a performance of the obligation created by the note, could not be enforced. It is a uni versal rule that the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the place where .it is made, and if it is not valid there it will not be enforced in another State... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...promissory note, the action against her could not be maintained. The court said: "As a general rule the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the place of contract. Story's Confl. of Laws, §§ 242, 280 ; Whart. Confl. of Laws, §§ 401,... | |
 | Insurance law - 1881 - 968 pages
...Co., 9 How., 390 ; Eliason vs. Henshaw, 4 Wheat., 225 ; Western vs. Genessee M Ins. Co.; 2 Kern., 258. The validity of a contract is to be determined by...it is valid there, it is deemed valid everywhere. Milliken et al. vs. Pratt, 125 Mass., 375 ; Scudder TS. Union Nat. Bank, 91 US, 406 ; Greenwood vs.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1382 pages
...LAWS. 1. The validity of a contract, even as regards the capacity of the partiei, 1« generally to be determined by the law of the state in which it is made. Miim-rn v. Pratt, 374. I. A contract, made in another state by a married woman domiciled here, which... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 1024 pages
...national policy and institutions, and for that reason should not be enforced. It is a general rule that the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the place . where it is made. If valid there, it is by the law of nations held valid everywhere.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 820 pages
...national policy and institutions, and for that reason should not be enforced. It ia a general rule that the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the place where it is made. If valid there, it is by the law of nations held valid everywhere. The... | |
 | Theron Metcalf - Contracts - 1874 - 404 pages
...to make an unlawful use of the property is not a defence to an action for the price. (b) Hence, as the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the place where it is made, (6 Mass. 377) it was decided, in Dater v. Earl (c) that the seller of... | |
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The general rule is that the validity of a contract is to be determined by the law of the state in which it is made; if... 
