2. Noun. (legal) : A situation in which a court, tasked with deciding which state's law should apply to a case, decides to apply the law of the forum based on the determination that a court from another involved state would also apply the law of the forum. ¹
3. Noun. Temporary call forwarding. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Renvoi
1. the expulsion by a government of an alien [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Renvoi
Literary usage of Renvoi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases on the Conflict of Laws: Selected from Decisions of English and by Ernest Gustav Lorenzen (1909)
"The "renvoi" doctrine has been applied frequently tn France since the Forgo ...
The renvoi doctrine was rejected by the Institute of International Law at ..."
2. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1916)
"In treating of the application of the renvoi doctrine in the American courts,
our author has this to say: We may be the less troubled about the finer points ..."
3. A History of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
"It is based on the arrit de renvoi and must not go beyond it. ... de renvoi.
C'est cet arret " qui fixe la nature et les limites de l'accusation; ..."
4. A Treatise on Private International Law: With Principal Reference to Its by John Westlake, Alfred Frank Topham (1905)
"But the opponents of the renvoi treat the theoretical possibility of the ...
And this view the opponents of the renvoi claim to have been the ancient one, ..."
5. The American Political Science Review (1918)
"The schools of jurisprudence. Nathan Isaacs. Harvard Law Rev. Jan., 1918.
renvoi Doctrine. The renvoi doctrine in the conflict of laws. Ernest G. Lorenzen. ..."
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