Cases on the conflict of laws : selected from decisions of English and American courts . nited States with regard to creditors who were not parties to such proceed-ings (Phelps V. Borland [18S0] 103 N. Y. 406, 9 N. E. 307, 57 Am. St. Rep. 755[obiter]); at least if the debt was made in and with reference to the laws ofthis country or a country other than the one where the discharge was v. McNeill, 4 ^Vheat. 209, 4 L. Ed. 552 (1819); Green v. Sarmiento,Fed. Cas. No. 5,760 (1810); In re Shepard (1868) Fed. Cas. No. 12,753 (obiter).With respect to corporations created under the laws o
Cases on the conflict of laws : selected from decisions of English and American courts . nited States with regard to creditors who were not parties to such proceed-ings (Phelps V. Borland [18S0] 103 N. Y. 406, 9 N. E. 307, 57 Am. St. Rep. 755[obiter]); at least if the debt was made in and with reference to the laws ofthis country or a country other than the one where the discharge was v. McNeill, 4 ^Vheat. 209, 4 L. Ed. 552 (1819); Green v. Sarmiento,Fed. Cas. No. 5,760 (1810); In re Shepard (1868) Fed. Cas. No. 12,753 (obiter).With respect to corporations created under the laws of a foreign country, seeCanada Southern R. Co. v. Gebhard. 109 U. S. 527, 3 Sup. Ct. 363, 27 L. (1883). See, also, Minor, Conflict of Laws, § 191; Wharton, Conflict ofLaws, §§ 522-529a; Hollis R. Bailey, A discharge in insolvency and its effectupon nonresidents. 6 Harv. Law Rev. 349-368. As to the English doctrine, see Oibbs v. Socigte Industrielle, 29 Q. B. (1890); Dicey, Conflict of Laws, Rules 114^117; Westlake, Priv. Int. Law,300. 470 PARTICULAR SUBJECTS. (Part 2. >«t^ authorized by a proclamation issued by the Sultan, the sovereign ruler,of Muscat, and pronounced to be lawful by a court of inquiry in Mus-cat, whose decision was confirmed by the Sultan. Evidence of thiswas given at the trial. The effect of the proclamation and inquiryis stated in Lord Lindleys judgment. Grantham, J., who tried thecase with a jury, entered judgment for the defendant. The Court ofAppeal (A. h. Smith, Vaughan Williams, and Romer, L. JJ.)reversed this decision, and entered judgment for the plaintiff for thevalue of the ammunition. Lord Macnaghten. This case has been very fully and very ablyargued, but after all it comes to an extremely short point. The re-spondents, who are, or were, merchants carrying on business in Lon-don, Bushire, and Muscat, sue the appellant, a captain in the Britishnavy, for an alleged wrong committed abroad. He seized their goods,as they allege, ill
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