it has by no means met with clear-cut
principles. Thus in one case it held that a New York statute forbidding
foreign corporations doing a domestic business to sue on causes
originating outside the State was constitutionally applicable to prevent
such a corporation from suing on a judgment obtained in a sister
State.[17] But in a later case it ruled that a Mississippi statute
forbidding contracts in cotton futures could not validly close the
courts of the State to an action on a judgment obtained in a sister
State on such a contract, although the contract in question had been
entered into in the forum State and between its citizens.[18] Following
the later rather than the earlier precedent, subsequent cases[19] have
held: (1) that a State may adopt such system of courts and form of
remedy as it sees fit, but cannot, under the guise of merely affecting
the remedy, deny enforcement of claims otherwise within the protection
of the full faith and credit clause when its courts have general
jurisdiction of the subject matter and the parties;[20] (2) that,
accordingly, a forum State, which has a shorter period of limitations
than the State in which a judgment was granted and later reviewed, erred
in concluding that, whatever the effect of the revivor under the law of
the State of origin, it could refuse enforcement of the revived
judgment;[21] (3) that the courts of one State have no jurisdiction to
enjoin the enforcement of judgments at law obtained in another State,
when the same reasons assigned for granting the restraining order were
passed upon on a motion for new trial in the action at law and the
motion denied;[22] (4) that the constitutional mandate requires credit
to be given to a money judgment rendered in a civil cause of action in
another State, even though the forum State would have been under no duty
to entertain the suit on which the judgment was founded, inasmuch as a
State cannot, by the adoption of a particular rule of liability or of
procedure, exclude from its courts a suit on a judgment;[23] and (5)
that similarly, tort claimants in State A, who obtain a judgment against
a foreign insurance company, notwithstanding that, prior to judgment,
domiciliary State B appointed a liquidator for the company, vested
company assets in him, and ordered suits against the company stayed, are
entitled to have such judgment recognized in State B for purposes of
determining the amount of their claim, although not for determi