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Foreign law : a guide to pleading and proof / Otto C. Sommerich, Benjamin Busch.
- Title
- Foreign law : a guide to pleading and proof / Otto C. Sommerich, Benjamin Busch.
- Author
- Sommerich, Otto C.
- Publication
- New York : Published by Oceana Publications for Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia University, 1959.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Busch, Benjamin.
- Description
- 170 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Foreign law, Pleading and proof of > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- When foreign law is applied : choice of law -- Common law requirements for pleading and proof of foreign law -- The development of judicial notice of foreign law -- The necessity of pleading foreign law -- Proper pleading of foreign law -- Bills of particular of foreign law -- Proof of foreign law -- The role of the court in trials involving foreign law -- Presumptions -- Summary judgment where foreign law is involved -- The ascertainment of foreign law by discovery procedures -- The Siegelman and the Walton cases -- How foreign law is applied in other countries -- An evaluation of American procedures for proving foreign law -- Appendix A. Opinions in selected cases -- Appendix B. Statutes -- Appendix C. Table of state laws governing judicial notice of foreign laws.
- LCCN
- ^^^59008604^/L
- OCLC
- 1699076
- SCSB-9915579
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library