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Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

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1984

Civil practice

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An Introduction To International Civil Practice, Detlev F. Vagts Jan 1984

An Introduction To International Civil Practice, Detlev F. Vagts

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

As the keynote speaker of this symposium, it is my function to provide a general framework within which the other speakers can develop their specific topics with much more extensive and current knowledge than I have.

In a crude way, the importance of the subject matter can be measured by the increase in the number of cases listed under the West key numbers for "Judgments" which purport to collect all of the cases on the enforcement of foreign judgments in United States courts. The West Modern Federal Practice Digest uses four pages under this caption to list cases for the …