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United States: Report of the U.S. Delegation to the Twelfth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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International Legal Materials , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , July 1973 , pp. 856 - 887
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1973

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[Reproduced from the text provided to International Legal Materials by the U.S. Department of State.

[The three conventions adopted by the Hague Conference at its twelf session (October 2-21, 1972) appear in the November 1972 issue of International Legal Materials. The Convention Concerning the International Administration of the Estates of Deceased Persons appears at 11 I.L.M. 1277 (1972). The Convention on the Law Applicable to Products Liability appears at 11 I.L.M. 1283 (1972), and the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions Relating to Maintenance Obligations at 11 I.L.M. 1286 (1972).]

References

1. The discussion of each of the three Conventions adopted at the session has been prepared by the member of the delegation who represented the United States on the Special Commission that did the preparatory work on the subject.

* The Convention is divided into seven chapters. The discussion which follows will be divided into sections paralleling the Convention’s chapters.

* Pt. IV was added in the 1958 revision of the Act and amended in 1968. The extension to other foreign nations was authorized in 1968.

2. The latter approach is reported to have been proposed in a regional draft that has recently been published. See 21 Am. J. Compar. L. 137(1973).

3. An extract from the U.S. statement at the meeting of Commission IV on October 13. 1972, appears at 21 Am. J. Compar. L. 137(1973). [Footnote not in original]