Hicks v. Reavis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the intent of the parties to choose governing law “will always be given effect except under exceptional circumstances evincing a purpose in making the contract to commit a fraud on the law”
• recognizing that the parties’ choice of law is controlling “unless it be so much in conflict with the public policy of Virginia that it would not be given recognition in its courts”
• recognizing that the 42 parties’ choice of law is controlling “unless it be so much in conflict with the public policy of Virginia that it would not be given recognition in its courts”
• holding that the intent of the parties to choose governing law “ ‘will always be given effect except under exceptional circumstances evincing a purpose in making the contract to commit a fraud on the law” ”
• stating that “the true test for the determination of the proper law of a contract is the intent of the parties”
• noting that the law of the forum should not be applied merely because it is “different from that of the place of making or performance” of the contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).