^ See the reasonings upon which these conclusions are based ; and the subject fully examined, in Stori/'s Confl. L., pp. 51-G2.
PERSONAL LAWS. 101 All laws which relate to the capacity, state, or condition of persons, are considered as personal laws ; and include all laws concerning majority or minority, emancipation, marital authority, minors, parents, guardians, legitimacy, civil death, infamy, nobility, foreigners, naturalization,^ and the like. And these have been divided by jurists into two sorts, universal and special. A universal personal law, as its description imports, relates to the universal state or condition of persons, such as their majority, minority, or the like. While a special personal law creates an ability or disability, and is such as declares infamy, civil death or the like, and is strictly local in its operation.^ But all personal laws of the first kind are held to be of absolute obligation everywhere, when they have once attached upon the person by the law of his domicil. Hence, says Hertius, the state and quality of a person are to be governed by the law of the place, to which he is by his domicil subjected. When- ever a law is directed to the person, we iare to refer to the law of the place, to which he is personally subject. Sine status et qualitas personce regitur a legi^ bus loci, cui ipsa sese per domicilium subjecit. Qvxindo lex in personam dirigitur, respiciendum est ad leges illitis civitatis, quce piersonam habet subfectamJ Thus, that person who has attained the age of majority, by the law of his native domicil, is to be deemed the ^ Boullenois Obs. 4, p. 46; Id., App., 48; Rodenhurg, De Div. Stat, tit. 2., ch. 5.
^ Henry on For. Law, 2 ; Story Confl., 64. ^ Hertii de Collisione Legum, pp. 122, 123.
same age everywhere else/ and vice versa. And the law of the domicil governs not only the state of the person, but his personal actions and