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Private International Law From The Equitable Jurisdiction: Imperialism, Universalism And Pluralism, Tiong Min Yeo
Private International Law From The Equitable Jurisdiction: Imperialism, Universalism And Pluralism, Tiong Min Yeo
2009 Yong Pung How Professorship of Law Lecture
One side-effect of globalization is increasing cross-border conflict arising from transactions between parties. Today, the courts have sophisticated tools to deal with such conflicts. The focus of this paper is the interrelation between the court’s approach when dealing with problems in its equitable jurisdiction, and its approach when dealing with cross-border problems.
The Effective Reach Of In Personam Reasoning In Private International Law, Tiong Min Yeo
The Effective Reach Of In Personam Reasoning In Private International Law, Tiong Min Yeo
2009 Yong Pung How Professorship of Law Lecture
Within the equitable jurisdiction, the phrase in personam has been used to describe the means of enforcement of the equitable decree, the justification for equitable jurisdiction generally, and the mechanism by which chancery rulings effectively override the common law. In the context of curial proceedings, the phrase is also used to describe the nature of jurisdiction assumed over a person, as well as the effect of a decree against a person, as opposed to a thing. In the discourse on rights, it is used to distinguish personal from property rights. In personam reasoning in the equitable sense has been used …