Foreign
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
That which belongs to another country; that which is strange.
Spratt v. Spratt, 1 Pet. (U. S.) 343, 7 L. Ed. 171.
Every nation is foreign to all the rest; and the several states of the American Union are foreign to each other, with respect to their municipal laws.
1 Wash. C. C. 282, Fed. Cas. No. 2,272; Brackett v. Norton, 4 Conn. 517, 10 Am. Dec. 179; Packard v. Hill, 2 Wend. (N. Y.) 411; Kean v. Rice, 12 S. & R. (Pa.) 203; Taylor v. Bank, 7 T. B. Monr. (Ky.) 585; Taylor's Adm'r v. Bank, 6 Leigh (Va.) 471; Inhabitants of Raynham v. Inhabitants of Canton, 3 Pick. (Mass.) 293; The Lulu, 10 Wall. (U. S.) 192, 19 L. Ed. 906; Negus v. Simpson, 99 Mass. 388.
But the reciprocal relations between the national government and the several states are not considered as foreign, but domestic; Hinde v. Vattier, 6 Pet. (U. S.) 398, 8 L. Ed. 168; Leland v. Wilkinson, 6 Pet. (U. S.) 317, 8 L. Ed. 412; Owings v. Hull, 9 Pet. (U. S.) 607, 9 L. Ed. 246; Young v. Bank, 4 Cra. (U. S.) 384, 2 L. Ed. 655; Chesapeake & O. Canal Co. v. R. Co., 4 Gill & J. (Md.) 1, 63.