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A closer examination shows that it is less the law itself but rather the legal procedure provided to determine and enforce the law (or not) which must be classified in this way. To use the broad meaning of sovereignty encompassing all the power and authority of the State, whether understood as historically personified or in the abstract, it is by the sovereign that law is administered (or not). It is his, her or its (whatever the national constitutional personification of sovereignty provides for) public authority which renders decisions of the courts binding.
It may be understood from Red Sea that the primacy of the lex fori proceduralis over the lex causae tends to be rather a primacy 38 American Law Institute, Restatement of the Law: Conflict of Laws, 2d (1971) pp. , Stevens and Sons Ltd, 1967) “as one which will normally apply to foreign torts”. 14 Chapter 1: A Procedural Perspective in Law of the courts and policies of the forum which are normally but not necessarily always embodied in the leges fori proceduralis. To sum up; the calculation of damages is most significant for those litigating.
From this it follows that a lawyer advising a client should be aware of the different remedies of those fora which may possibly assume jurisdiction in a case. D. Melamed, “Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One view of the Cathedral” (1972) 85 Harv L Rev 1089. 28 Baschet v London Illustrated Standard Co. , Thomson Sweet and Maxwell, 2006) Chapter 7. 29 Reichsgericht decision of 28 April 1900, Vol 46 RGZ p. 193, 199: “Für den deutschen Richter besteht kein Anlaß diese Grundsätze des englischen Aktionensystems in einem von ihm geführten Prozeß deswegen zur Anwendung zu bringen, weil die Verpflichtung an sich dem englischen Recht untersteht.