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  2. Uti possidetis juris - Wikipedia

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    Uti possidetis juris has been applied in modern history to such regions as South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union, and numerous other regions where centralized governments were broken up, where imperial rulers were overthrown, or where League of Nations mandates ended, e.g. Mandatory Palestine and Nauru.

  3. Conflict of laws - Wikipedia

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    The term private international law comes from the private law/public law dichotomy in civil law systems. [13] [14] In this form of legal system, the term private international law does not imply an agreed upon international legal corpus, but rather refers to those portions of domestic private law that apply to international issues.

  4. Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995

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    The Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 (c. 42) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act is made up of several parts. The three principal parts regulate: Interest on judgment debts and arbitral awards; Validity of marriages under a law which permits polygamy; Choice of law in tort and delict

  5. Global justice - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, Rawls argues that when his method is applied to global justice, it supports a quite traditional, Kantian international ethics: duties of states to obey treaties and strict limits on warmaking, but no global repossession of private property. So, different justices apply to the domestic and international cases.

  6. Pacta sunt servanda - Wikipedia

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    The only limits to application of pacta sunt servanda are the peremptory norms of general international law, which are denominated "jus cogens", i.e. compelling law. The legal principle of clausula rebus sic stantibus in customary international law also permits non-satisfaction of obligations pursuant to treaty because of a compelling change of ...

  7. File:Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act ...

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    Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 Description English: An Act to make provision about interest on judgment debts and arbitral awards expressed in a currency other than sterling; to make further provision as to marriages entered into by unmarried persons under a law which permits polygamy; to make provision for choice ...

  8. Concessions and leases in international relations - Wikipedia

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    In international relations, a concession is a "synallagmatic act by which a State transfers the exercise of rights or functions proper to itself to a foreign private test which, in turn, participates in the performance of public functions and thus gains a privileged position vis-a-vis other private law subjects within the jurisdiction of the State concerned."

  9. Condominium (international law) - Wikipedia

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    A condominium (plural either condominia, as in Latin, or condominiums) in international law is a territory (such as a border area or a state) in or over which multiple sovereign powers formally agree to share equal dominium (in the sense of sovereignty) and exercise their rights jointly, without dividing it into "national" zones.