Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. G.C. Zarnas & Co.

I respectfully dissent from part (1) of the Court’s opinion. An internal rule of contract law in a statute expressly stating that rule to be public policy does not necessarily express that degree of public policy which prevents applying the lex loci. In the case at hand Md.Code (1974, 1984 Repl.Vol.), § 5-305 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article (Courts Article) presents the conflict of laws prob*196lem, but the statute does not, of itself, solve the problem. The statute alerts us to the need for analysis; the statute does not dispense with analysis.(1)

Initially we must define the…