Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

private international law

International conflict of laws. ( Legal scholars frequently lament the name "private international law" because it misleadingly suggests a body of law somehow parallel to public international law, when in fact it is merely a part of each legal system'F nr;vate l,aw, _._._ .Also termed international private law; jus gentium privatum. See CONFLICT OF LAWS (2)."'International Private law,' 'Internationales Privatrecht,' though a dangerously ambiguous term, is not incapable of being understood to denote the mode in which rules of private law are borrowed by the Courts of one State from those of another." Thomas E. Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence 422 (13th ed. 1924).