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private international law (conflict of laws (also called private international law): the existence worldwide, and within individual countries, of different legal traditions, different specific rules of private law, and different systems of private law, all of which are administered by court systems similarly subject to different rules and traditions of procedure. The "law of the conflict of laws" pertains to the resolution of problems resulting from such diversity of courts and law. Britannica Alexander Demidov); conflict of laws (Conflict of laws (or private international law) is a set of procedural rules that determines which legal system and which jurisdiction apply to a given dispute. The rules typically apply when a legal dispute has a "foreign" element such as a contract agreed to by parties located in different countries, although the "foreign" element also exists in multi-jurisdictional countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada. WK Alexander Demidov) |
