Foreign judgment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 59 U.S. 404 - Lafayette Insurance v. French · 1855Most cited · 528 citing opinions
full faith and credit limit—jurisdiction over person
this act of congress was not designed to displace that principle of natural justice which requires a person to have notice of a suit before he can be conclusively bound by its result; nor those rules of public law which protect persons and property within one State from the exercise of jurisdiction over them by another.
How the Supreme Court has restated “Foreign judgment”
Each Supreme Court definition of “Foreign judgment,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Foreign judgment”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “Foreign judgment” — 893 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 3 definitions, chronological · 1790–1855
- ORIGINAL
however definitive a sentence of a foreign court may be, as between the parties to the suit, it cannot bind third persons.
effect on third persons
in the administration of assets in Georgia, a judgment rendered in South Carolina, upon a promissory note against the intestate when in life, should not be paid in preference to simple contract debts... in marshalling the assets of an insolvent estate, a judgment recovered in another state only ranks as a simple contract.
ranks as simple contract in administration