An opposition , conflict, or antagonism between different laws of the same state or sovereignty upon the same subject-matter . 2. A similar inconsistency between the municipal laws of different states or countries, arising in the case of persons who have acquired rights or a status, or made contracts, or incurred obligations, within the territory of two or more states. 3. That branch of jurisprudence , arising from the diversity of the laws of different nations in their application to rights and remedies, which reconciles the inconsistency, or decides which law or system is to govern in the particular case, or settles the degree of force to be accorded to the law of a foreign country, (the acts or rights in question having arisen under it,) either where it varies from the domestic law, or where the domestic law is silent or not exclusively applicable to the case in point . In this sense it is more properly called ” private international law .”
Black’s Law Online Dictionary
