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INTERNATIONAL LAW (PRIVATE). There is in every
territory the law of the land, or territorial law, by which the
courts decide all cases that include no circumstances connected
with any foreign territory. Often, however, such a circumstance
suggests the question whether justice does not require that the
law of some other territory shall be applied. Thus the Gretna
Green marriages, by which English minors escaped the necessity
of banns or the consent of parents or guardians, suggested the
question, which was answered in the affirmative, whether even
in England their validity ought not to be tried by the law of
Scotland, where they were celebrated. Often, again, the question
is suggested whether justice does not require that the courts
of law should allow some effect to foreign legal proceedings,
such as a judgment obtained or litigation pending abroad.
Such questions as these are answered by private international
law, which, since both laws and legal proceedings are emanations
of public authority, may be defined as the department of legal
science which is concerned with the effect to be given in the
courts of law of any territory to the public authority of another
territory. The extradition of criminals is also an effect given
to foreign public authority, but rather by the government which
surrenders the criminal (see Extradition) than by the courts
of law, whose only function is to check the surrender so far as
the domestic legislation allows them to do so. If private international
law were defined as the effect to be given by any mode
in one territory to the public authority of another, extradition
would be included in it, as is often done; but since the principles
governing extradition have little to do with those applicable
to the other cases, it seems best to treat it as a separate department
of law, as is generally done in England.
Comity of Nations.—In the 17th century the Dutch jurists Paul and John Voet and Huber brought forward a view which has since been largely adopted in England and the United States, namely, that the effect given by courts of law to foreign public authority is only due to the comity of nations, but for which every possible question before them would have to be decided by the law of the land. Comity, in that phrase, may only be intended to express the truth that foreign public authority has no inherent effect, without denying that the effect which domestic public authority allows to it is dictated by justice. But the limitations implied in the popular meaning of comity have sometimes been made the ground for deciding questions of private international law in the manner supposed to be most for the interest of litigants belonging to the territory; the phrase is consequently reprobated by most European continental writers, and had better be dropped. The justice on which private international law is founded acknowledges no interest but the general one of intercourse between persons sharing a common civilization in different countries. This interest, as manifesting itself in the domain of law, it seeks to satisfy and it is therefore a true legal justice, rightly classed under law, droit, recht, diritto, derecho and other corresponding terms.
Of the two words which, together with law, make up the title of our subject, private is justified by the fact that its application is between litigants in courts of law, and not between governments except so far as they may be such litigants. International (although interterritorial would be better) is justified by the
