What authority exists to establish that a court has jurisdiction in personam?

Alberta, Canada


The following excerpt is from Wilbur v. Moreno, 2002 ABQB 457 (CanLII):

In Canadian Encyclopaedic Digest (Western), volume 6, at page 72 paragraph 9 the text states: A court has jurisdiction in personam only if the defendant is duly served with the originating process or voluntarily submits to the jurisdiction. The authority mentioned Merchants Bank v. Eliot, [1918] 1 W.W.R. 698.

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