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ren·voi /ren-'vȯi/ n [French, act of sending back, reference, from Middle French, from renvoyer to send back]: the reference of a matter involving a conflict of laws to the law of the foreign jurisdiction involved including reference to the jurisdiction's rules governing conflicts of laws compare whole law
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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to send back, the doctrine in private international law that 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.
Collins dictionary of law. W. J. Stewart. 2001.
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The process by which a court adopts the rules of a foreign jurisdiction with respect to any conflict of laws that arises.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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The process by which a court adopts the rules of a foreign jurisdiction with respect to any conflict of laws that arises.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
