renvoi
renvoi to send back, the doctrine in PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW that
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repugnancy
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remits a question of choice of law back to the system from which the cause arose in the first place. The doctrine can result in a 'magic roundabout' because a double renvoi theory can apply where a court tries to place itself in the place of the foreign court and to decide it like the foreign court. The Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990 applying the European Rome Convention excludes the doctrine of renvoi. The Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 excludes the doctrine in delict. In relation to wills, renvoi is excluded as to formal validity by the Wills Act 1963.
- balance sheet test
- banking
- Bank of England
- bankruptcy
- banns of marriage
- Bar
- barratry
- barrister
- barter
- bastard
- battery
- battle of the forms
- battle, trial by
- bearer
- Beddoe order
- behaviour (establishing the ground of divorce)
- Belfast Agreement
- belligerency
- bench trial
- beneficiary
- benefits in kind
- Benjamin order
- bequest
- best evidence rule
- bestiality