Transactions in a Foreign Country, will be judged of, as to Proof and Effect, by the Law of the Place, so far as founded in the jus gentium, not where merely statutable.
Subject_3 SECT. I.
Payment.
Hyde v. Williamson
Date: 7 February 1634 Case No. No 12.
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An Englishman, Hyde, pursues Williamson, Scotum, for payment of a certain sum of money which he was obliged to pay him by a bond made at London, at a certain day. The defender offered him to prove that the sum was paid. It was duplied, That the bond being made in England, to an Englishman, might be proven by witnesses, as use is in England; which the Lords sustained.
