4.3 Exclusion of Foreign Law (the Four Bars)

4.3.1 Revenue law (the revenue rule): the foreign revenue law NOT enforced (the foreign tax claim not collected (the sovereign's extraterritorial demand refused — the forum not the foreign treasury's agent)); the modern qualifications (the treaties' assistance (the tax-cooperation conventions — the double-taxation's machinery)); the Nepali face (the foreign revenue's non- enforcement; the domestic revenue's own law). 4.3.2 Penal law: the foreign crimes not prosecuted (the criminal law's territoriality (the lex loci delicti's monopoly — the public law's non- application)); the private claim's survival (the foreign wrong with the civil face — the tort claim suable though the crime not (the public-private division)); the confiscation's refusal (the foreign penal judgment's non-enforcement (the state's penalty not the private debt)). 4.3.3 Foreign proprietary legislation: the foreign expropriation-and-confiscation's non-recognition (the foreign taking of the forum-located property refused (the territorial sovereignty's respect — the property's situs law governs its fate)); the act-of-state doctrine's companion (the foreign sovereign's acts within its own territory not questioned — the UK/US craft (the public policy's face)). 4.3.4 Foreign laws repugnant to public policy: the public policy's exception (the classic limbo — the otherwise-applicable foreign law EXCLUDED where the forum's fundamental values offended): the faces (the slavery-and-servitude; the discriminatory laws; the fraud-and-punitive excess; the Fundamental Rights' conflict (the constitutional values — the Nepal's Art-11-type equality (the verified-article's craft —…