| 单词 | proper law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasproper law proper law n. Law †(a) the law or system of laws which operates in specific circumstances, in a particular country, etc. (obsolete); (b) the particular law taken to obtain in, or be appropriate to the consideration of, a specific case or transaction. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > a law > other general types of law judicialc1400 proper law1609 antinomy1644 cobweb law1649 post-law1663 overlaw1883 inn law1930 loi-cadre1953 1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning viii. 579 As this is no proper law of England..but common to all or most Nations: and therefore no maruayle though it were in vse also among the English before the Conquest. 1726 A. Bayne Disc. on Rise & Progress Law of Scotl. in T. Hope Minor Practicks 166 Altho' we have thus collected and adopted a proper Law of our own, which is partly written, partly consuetudinary; yet..some Questions will often occur which by no Rule in our Law can well be decided. 1850 W. H. Foote Sketches of Virginia 212 If the Act of Toleration be..adopted, and wrought into your constitution and made a proper law of your colony, [etc.]. 1938 N. Mackenzie & L. H. Laing Canada & Law of Nations f. i. 426 That contractual stipulations as to the measure of damages embodied in the agreement itself are governed as to validity and effect by the proper law of the contract, seems to follow as a corollary from the principle that the cause of action rests upon the rights given by that law. 2005 Times (Nexis) 21 June 60 Lord Justice Longmore said that the proper law of the contract of carriage was English law, since the parties had so agreed. < as lemmas |
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