These rules have no "international" validity, and the term is applied to them, merely in a popular way, to indicate that a Court may have in some cases to apply the law of a country other than that in which it is sitting.

The unfortunate opposition of "public" to "private" international law has to answer for much confusion of thought.

"International law," properly so called, has, of course, no need to be described as "public" to distinguish it from rules for solving the "conflicts" of private laws, which are "international" rules only in the sense that laws are sometimes applied in countries other than those in which they are primarily binding.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T.E.HOLLAND.
Oxford, December 19 (1918).
NOTES - 1: Writer's names are omitted as immaterial.
- 2: _Infra_, p.

70.
A full discussion of the topics dealt with in the last paragraph of this letter may be found in my _Elements of Jurisprudence_, edit.xii., pp.

409-425.