Foreign administrator
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 40 U.S. 1 - James Moody Vaughan v. Henry Northup James Moody · 1841Most cited · 167 citing opinions
no extraterritorial authority
Every grant of administration is strictly confined in its authority and operation to the limits of the territory of the government which grants it; and does not, de jure, extend to other countries. It cannot confer, as a matter of right, any authority to collect assets of the deceased, in any other state; and whatever operation is allowed to it beyond the original territory of the grant, is a mere matter of comity, which every nation is at liberty to yield or to withhold, according to its own policy and pleasure.
How often courts cite the case defining “Foreign administrator”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Foreign administrator” — 166 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.