Black's Law Dictionary,
Sixth Edition, pp. 299-300
Conflict of laws. Inconsistency or difference between the
laws of different states or countries, arising in the case of persons
who have acquired rights, incurred obligations, injuries or damages,
or made contracts, within the territory of two or more jurisdictions.
Hence, that branch of jurisprudence, arising from the diversity of the
laws of different nations, states or jurisdictions, in their application
to rights and remedies, which reconciles the inconsistency, or decides
which law or system is to govern in the particular case, or settles
the degree of force to be accorded to the law of another jurisdiction,
(the acts or rights in question having arisen under it) either where
it varies from the domestic law, or where the domestic law is silent
or not exclusively applicable to the case in point. Restatement,
Second, Conflicts of Law, §2. See also Center of gravity
doctrine; Choice of law; Grouping of contracts; Kilberg doctrine; Lex
celebrationis; Lex contractus; Lex fori; Lex loci; Lex loci celebrationis;
Lex loci contractus; Lex situs; Lex solutionis; Lex validitatis; Renvoi
doctrine.
[Black's Law Dictionary,
Sixth Edition, pp. 299-300]
"The principle thus applicable has been frequently stated. It is
that the Congress may circumscribe its regulation and occupy a limited
field, and that the intention to supersede the exercise by the State
of its authority as to matters not covered by the federal legislation
is not to be implied unless the Act of Congress fairly interpreted
is in conflict with the law of the State. See Savage v. Jones, 225 U.S. 501, 533 .
[Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co. v. Railroad
Commission, 283 U.S. 380, 392 -393. ]
"It should never be held that Congress intends to supersede or by
its legislation suspend the exercise of the police powers of the
States, even when it may do so, unless its purpose to effect that
result is clearly manifested."
[Reid v. Colorado, 187 U.S. 137, 148 ]