Note 295 — Chapter XV · PERSONS.
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It is a somewhat curious circumstance that the legal persons created by one system of law receive full recognition from other systems. This form of legal fiction has acquired extraterritorial and international validity. A French corporation can sue and be sued in an English court of justice as if it were a real person. The Dutch West India Co. v. Van Moses, 1 Str. 611; Newby v. Van Oppen, L. R. 7 Q. B. 293.