TITLES to Lands in Ireland , ought to be tryed by the Laws of Ireland , and not by the Civil-Law , or Laws of Scotland , or any other Countrey , and to admit the Judicature of any other Kingdom to have a Right to try Titles to Lands in Ireland , is to the Disinherison of the King and his Crown of Ireland , and of the Subjects of Ireland of their Birth-right .

Though Crimes committed in Scotland , or other Foreign Kingdom , should not be punishable by the Laws of England or Ireland , though by a Subject of England or Ireland committed ; but be punishable in Scotland , or such Foreign Kingdom , by the Laws of that Kingdom , if a Sentence or Judgment be given in such Cause in any Foreign Kingdom , that Sentence , except in Maritime Cases , shall have no Effect in England or Ireland ; it shall not attaint the Blood , or cause any Forfeiture or Disability , suppose it be for Murther , or Felony , or the like .

The Laws of England and Ireland admit of divers sorts of Tryals in particular Cases , as by Certificate of Marshall , Mayor of Burdeaux , and many other in particular Cases , mentioned in Abbot of Strat Marchellocr , Cap. Rep. 9.31 , 32. but never admitted Mens Estates to be tried by Laws or Judicatures of other Countries ; no Book or Case , I suppose , ever admitted such a Tryal : Therefore if this had been a Sentence or Decree in Scotland , in a Criminal Proceeding , for Forging these Deeds there , that Sentence or Proceeding ought to have no Effect here .

If in a Tryal of Forgery , upon an Indictment or Information , a Deed be found Forged , it shall be damned , this Tryal is conclusive , and while that Verdict or Judgment stands , no other Court ought to suffer that Deed to be insisted on as a true Deed , it hath had its legal Tryal .

But this Proceeding in Scotland is not Criminal , for then there would have been some Fine or Punishment inflicted , besides destroying the Deed , upon the Offender , none is mentioned .

There is no Case ( except only whereupon Indictment or Information of Forgery ) wherein any Proceeding on any Deed or Will is declared Forged , the Parties shall at Law be thereby debarred from using it .

Suppose a Deed in Chancery , Court of Request , formerly , or in the Ecclesiastical Court , or a Will concerning Lands and Goods , shall be Decreed or pronounced against , as aforesaid , the Party Entitled to any Land by such Deeds or Will , shall not thereby be debarred , but have his Tryal Per Pares , by the Law of the Land ; and in such Tryal , such Decree is no Evidence ; so that if as much Authority or Credit should be given to this Scottish Proceeding , as to any Proceeding in any Court , not Proceeding according to the Common Law , it can neither be a Bar , nor admitted as Legal Evidence , the Reasons are evident .

Every Country hath its Municipal Laws , Rules and Methods , but different one from another ; the Subject of each Country hath their Estates and Properties by their Respective Laws ; their own , not other Laws , are their Rules ; to make the Laws of one Country interpose and take place in another , must break and confound the Laws and Rules of that Country . This Case , of their Law in Scotland concerning Forgery , is a sufficient Instance , for if by the Law there , a Deed that hath not the Place where made , Witnesses in the Body of the Deed be to be taken as Forged ; 't is no Wonder , that though the Deeds in question , made according to the Laws of Ireland , be there condemned as Forged ; but it is then most plain , he that hath an undoubted Title by the Law of Ireland , shall lose his 〈◇〉 because his Deeds not made according to the Law of Scotland ; so that I think the Sentence is to have no Effect as to Evidence , or otherwise to effect the Title to a Free-hold in Ireland .