| | Glossary of Conflict of Laws |
 | | 805-808 and 848-856. As of March 1, 2002, the Brussels Convention 1968 was replaced, for all Member States of the European Union except Denmark, by E.C. Regulation 44/2001 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial maters, infra. |
 | | Comity - The doctrine requiring courts of one state to recognize the laws and judgments of competent courts of another state, in order to secure the reciprocal recognition by that foreign state of the laws and the judgments of the first state. |
 | | This theory called upon the courts to determine which state's policies and interests would be more greatly impaired by the application of the other state's law to the case at hand and then to apply the law of the state likely to suffer the greater impairment. |
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