reciprocity between states or nations
- reciprocity between states or nations
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An arrangement between states which permits an attorney at law moving from one state to another to be admitted to practice in the latter state without examination. Anno: 51 ALR2d 1198. A matter of relationship between states or nations whereby the recognition in one state or nation of a right under the laws of another state or nation is to be considered in determining whether the latter shall recognize a similar right arising under the laws of the former. Hart v Oliver Farm Equipment Sales Co. 37 NM 267, 21 P2d 96, 87 ALR 962.
No doctrine of comity, in the sense of reciprocity, governs absolutely the action of a court with regard to the enforcement of a foreign right; no foreign right should be refused enforcement merely because it arose in a state, the courts of which do not enforce similar rights created abroad. Restatement, Conflict of Laws § 6, Comment a.
The "reciprocity" rule, whereby a judgment of a foreign country will be given such effect in an American court as the courts of that country would accord to an American judgment, may not be invoked where plaintiffs are not citizens of the United
States. Bata v Bata (Sup) 39 Del Ch 258, 163 A2d 493, rearg den 39 Del Ch 548, 170 A2d 711, cert den 366 US 964, 6 1, Ed 2d 1255, 81 S Ct 1926.
See reciprocal tariff, commerce, or navigation.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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