 The universal doctrine now recognized by the common law is, that succession to personal property is governed, exclusively, by the law of the actual domicil of the intestate at the time of his death.  Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York - Page 403by New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand, Edward Jordan Dimock, Hiram Edward Sickels, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edwin Augustus Bedell, James Newton Fiero, Alvah S. Newcomb - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 568 pages
...law, and supported by the generality of foreign jurists, is, that the succession to personal property is governed exclusively by the law of the actual domicil of the intestate at the time of his death. The descent and heirship of real estate is exclusively governed by the law of the country within which... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 582 pages
...law, and supported by the generality of foreign jurists, is, that the succession to personal property is governed exclusively by the law of the actual domicil of the intestate at the time of his death. The descent and heirship of real estate is exclusively governed by the law of the country within which... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1846 - 1148 pages
...recognised by the common law, although formerly much contested, is, that the succession to personal property is governed exclusively by the law of the actual domicil of the intestate at the time of his death.1 It is of no conse1 Many of the authorities to sustain this point have been already cited, ante,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1856 - 774 pages
...country. The universal doctrine now recognized by the common law is, that succession to personal property is governed, exclusively, by the law of the actual...domicil of the intestate at the time of his death. (Story's Conflict of Laws, sec. 451.) It is also well settled by the same authority, sec. 513, that... | |
 | 1871 - 224 pages
...recognised by the Common Law, although formerly much contested, is, that the succession to personal property is governed exclusively by the law of the actual domicil of the intestate at the time of his death. It is of no consequence, what is the country of the birth of the intestate or of his former domicil,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1880 - 730 pages
...DESCENTS — personal property — by what law governed. The succession to personal property is governed by the law of the actual domicil of the intestate at the time of his death, no matter what was the country of his birth, or his former domicil, or the actual situs of the property... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1861 - 844 pages
...DCCCLXXV. The answer to the first question is, that the succession to moveable property is governed by the Law of the actual domicil of the intestate at the time of his death ; and that this Law decides who are the persons entitled in distribution ; and in what degree of preference,... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1887 - 724 pages
...connection. The Code, §267. Mitchell v. Mitchell, 14. 2. The succession to the personal estate of a decedent is governed exclusively by the law of the actual domicil of the iestator at the time of his death. Cade v. Davis, 139. 3. A creditor may sue the real representative... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1874 - 904 pages
...DCCCLXXV. The answer to the first question is, that the succession to moveable property is governed by the Law of the actual domicil of the intestate at the time of his death ; and that this Law decides who are the persons entitled in distribution ; and in what degree of preference,... | |
 | 1875 - 870 pages
...applied, unless the context furnishes some other clear guide.* The succession to personal property is governed exclusively by the law of the actual domicil of the intestate or testator, f And, as bearing on this question, a marriage valid where solemnized is valid everywhere,... | |
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