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Habitual Residence as a Connecting Factor in Questions of Personal Status under Luxembourg Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

Fernand Schockweiler
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In common law countries it is the tradition to link personal status (‘statut personnel’), particularly issues of family law, to the domicile of the interested party — in the peculiar meaning this concept has within that legal system — whereas in Continental or civil law countries, since the nineteenth century and the birth of the ‘Etat-nations’ at least, it has been governed by the law of the nationality of the parties.

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Netherlands International Law Review , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , May 1993 , pp. 115 - 128
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1993

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1. Cass. 28 August 1949, Tarchini, Pas. 14,541, note; Court of Appeal 18 June 1952, Faber, Pas. 15,411, note.

2. Luxembourg 27 June 1980, Tinant-Wagner, no. 4180.

3. Luxembourg 8 February 1982, Speciale-Nastic.

4. Enacted by the Law of 20 May 1983, Mém. 1012.

5. Court of Appeal 1 March 1982, Pas. 25,341.

6. Luxembourg 19 January 1989, no. 38790 of the cause list.

7. Law of 17 July 1958, Mém. 1118.

8. Declaration of 15 July 1971, Mém. 1971,1699.

9. Mém. 869.

10. Enacted in Luxembourg by the Law of 13 June 1978, Mém. 662.

11. Enacted in Luxembourg by the Law of 17 May 1967, Mém. 532.

12. Tutelles Luxembourg 7 October 1985, Mauduit, no. 103/85.

13. Enacted in Luxembourg by the Law of 17 March 1984, Mém. 370.

14. Enacted in Luxembourg by the Law of 20 December 1990, Mém. 1393.

15. Reasons given in the opinion of the Procurator General of 29 March 1971 and repeated by the Ministry of Justice.

16. Mém. 1396.

17. Law of 17 December 1990 reintroducing Art. 305 of the Civil Code, Mém. 1395.

18. Convention of 1 June 1970 on the Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations.

19. Pari. Doc. No. 2413, ord. sess. 1979–80, p. 10.

20. Cited in notes 2–6, supra.

21. Law of 20 December 1990, Mém. 1401.

22. Pari. Doc. No. 2579, ord. sess. 1981–82, p. 4.

23. Article 103 Civil Code.

24. Court of Appeal 23 January 1968, Pas. 20,479.