Personal law

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....4), as follows: "The law that governs a person's family matters, regardless of where the person goes. In common law systems, personal law refers to the law of....

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....n as a social being, so that those transactions of his daily life which affect him most closely in a personal sense, such as marriage, divorce, legitimacy, many kinds of capacity, and succession, may ....