Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Model Penal Code.

A proposed criminal code drafted by the American Law Institute and used as the basis for criminal-law revision by many states. - Abbr. MPC."The maxim rnobilia sequuntur personam is the exception rather than the rule, and is probably to be confined to certain special classes of general assignments such as marriage settlements and devolutions on death and bankruptcy." Handel a. Slatford, 1953 Q.B. 248, 257 (Eng. C.A.)."Under the influence of Savigny many Continental systems in the mid-nineteenth century led the way for Anglo-American law in limiting the operation of the doctrine of mobilia sequuntur personam to universal assignments of movables, adopting for particular assignments the single principle of the lex situs of the movable." R.H. Graveson, Conflict of Laws 457 (7th ed. 1974).