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Effect of erroneous foreign judgment

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From 11 U.S. 423 - William Williams v. George Armroyd · 1813Most cited · 26 citing opinions

That the sentence is avowedly made under a decree subversive of the law of nations, will not help the Appellant's case, in a Court which cannot revise, correct, or even examine that sentence. If an erroneous judgment binds the property on which it acts, it will not bind that property the less because its error is apparent. Of that error, advantage can be taken only in a Court which is capable of correcting it.