Chapter V.

same remedies that are provided for the citizens of the State. Thus a plea of the statute of limitations of the State where the contract is made, is no bar to an action brought in a foreign court to enforce the contract; but the same plea of the statute of the State where the suit is brought is a valid bar, provided the actual, open, and public residence of the party in the place, for the period hmited by the statute, entitles him to its benefits. And in admit- ting the law of a foreign nation to govern in regard to contracts made there, every nation merely recog- nizes from a principle of comity the same right to exist in other nations, which it demands and exer- cises for itself.^ Thus, a contract which comes within the statute of frauds, such as agreements respecting the sale of lands, or the sale of goods beyond a certain amount, or for the debts of third persons, cannot be sued upon unless they are in writing. If such con- tracts, made by parol in a country by whose laws they are required to be in writing, are sought to be enforced in another country, they will be held void, exactly as they would be held void in the place where they were made, and vice versa.' But when ' ffub. De Confiictu Legum, § 7 ; De la Vega v. Vianna, 1 B. & Adolph., 284; Triviht/ v. Vignier, 1 Bing. N. 0. K., 151; Dunscom.b V. Banker, 2 Medcalfs E,., 8.