Jurisdiction Ratione Personae Law and Legal Definition
Jurisdiction Ratione Personae refers to a court’s power to bring a person into its adjudicative process. It is the jurisdiction over a defendant's personal rights, rather than merely over property interests. Ratione Personae is a Latin term which means by reason of his person. For example, if a tourist from Nicaragua visited a Canadian courthouse and filed a statement of claim against another Nicaraguan in relation to a tort that allegedly occurred in Nicaragua, the Candian court can decline to hear the case because of a lack of rationae personae.
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Related Legal Terms
- Actus Inceptus Cujus Perfectio Pendet Ex Voluntate Partium Revocari Potest, Si Autem Pendet Ex Voluntate Tertiae Personae, Vel Ex Contingenti, Revocar
- Admiralty Jurisdiction
- Aggregation of Jurisdictional Amount
- Ancillary Jurisdiction
- Anomalous Jurisdiction
- Anomalous-Jurisdiction Rule
- Appellate Jurisdiction
- Arising-in Jurisdiction
- Assistant Jurisdiction
- Boni Judicis Est Ampliare Jurisdictionem
