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private international law

private international law noun: the law of a state that decides the law of which state is applied to legal relationships in civil and commercial matters that contain foreign elements.

Noun

private international law (uncountable)

  1. The law of a state that decides the law of which state is applied to legal relationships in civil and commercial matters that contain foreign elements.
    Synonyms:
    rule on the conflict of laws, conflict of law rule, collision law

private international law meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Thai

private international law in Tamil

தனிநிலைப் பன்னாட்டுச் சட்டம்

private international law in Arabic

law
قَانُون دُوَلِيّ خَاصّ qānūn duwaliyy ḵāṣṣ

private international law in Thai

law
กฎหมายระหว่างประเทศแผนกคดีบุคคล gòt-mǎai-rá-wàang-bprà-têet-pà-nɛ̀ɛk-ká-dii-bùk-kon

Synonyms of private international law

  • rule on the conflict of laws
  • conflict of law rule
  • collision law

Forms of private international law

alternative forminternational private law

Origin of private international law

The sense of this word order is that it is private law that typically applies between various nationals, rather than international law of a private character.

Questions about private international law

What does private international law mean?
Private international law means the law of a state that decides the law of which state is applied to legal relationships in civil and commercial matters that contain foreign elements.
What is private international law in Tamil?
Private international law in Tamil is தனிநிலைப் பன்னாட்டுச் சட்டம். See Private international law meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is private international law?
Private international law is a noun.

Words near private international law in the dictionary

  1. private eyes
  2. private first class
  3. private good
  4. private goods
  5. private house
  6. private international law
  7. private investigator
  8. private investigators
  9. private investment banker
  10. private investment bankers
  11. private joke

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: private international law (page history and authors); private international law (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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