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conflict of laws The branch of English law compendiously known as conflict of laws or private international law consists of the rules adopted by English courts for determining first, the limits of their own jurisdiction in matters which either wholly or in part arise aboard or in connection with foreign transactions; secondly, if the matter falls within their jurisdiction, the law whether English or foreign, which in the circumstances of the case it becomes their duty to apply, thirdly where a foreign court has given a judgment relating to matters before an English court, the effect of the foreign judgment in the English proceedings; and fourthly, the reciprocal enforcements of judgments between the United Kingdom and other countries. |