This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
The foregoing propositions apply to representations of domestic law only. In fraud, as generally, foreign law is treated as a fact, and a misstatement thereof may be fraud,1 as where one is induced thereby to enter into a contract controlled by such foreign law and illegal thereunder.2
 
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