Foreign laws
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 6 U.S. 187 - Church v. Hubbart · 1804Most cited · 143 citing opinions
proof of, as facts
Foreign laws are well understood to be facts which must, like other facts, be proved to exist before they can be received in a court of justice. The principle that the best testimony shall be required which the nature of the thing admits of; or in other words, that no testimony shall be received which presupposes better testimony attainable by the party who offers it, applies to foreign laws as it does to all other facts. The sanction of an oath is required for their establishment, unless they can be verified by some other such high authority that the law respects it not less than the oath of an individual.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Foreign laws” — 143 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.