Jacobs v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that under the rule of lex loci delicti the substantive tort law is determined by the place of the wrong, in that case New Jersey, and the procedural law is governed by the law of the forum, in that case Maryland
• “If there is no cause of action, there is nothing to which the right of trial by jury can attach”
• “We must caution that ‘public policy’ is not a term to be bandied about lightly in every conflict of laws case. One should be well convinced of the weight of a supposed policy before advancing it against bedrock legal principles.”
• “We must caution that ‘public policy’ is not a term to be bandied about lightly in every conflict of laws case. One should be well convinced of the weight of a supposed policy before advancing it against bedrock legal principles.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).