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V. Domicile and Residence
(14,640 words)

Volume IV: Persons and Family | Chapter 2 (1995): Persons

Domicile and Residence: Completed in spring 1988; certain recent developments have been taken into account.

Andreas Heldrich, Anton F. Steiner, Walter Pintens, Michael R. Will, Walter Zeyringer

Andreas Heldrich and Anton F. Steiner1

A. General

i. Overview

233. – In many respects the law must anchor human beings spatially within a particular legal context. The localization of a person’s focus of life is relevant e.g. in the search for the applicable law in private inte…

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Andreas Heldrich and Anton F. Steiner, “V. Domicile and Residence”, in: International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Online, Edited by: U. Drobnig, R. David, H. H. Egawa, R. Graveson, V. Knapp, A. T. Von Mehren, Y. Noda, S. Rozmaryn, V. M. Tschchikvadze, H. Valladão, H. Yntema, K. Zweigert. Consulted online on 01 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-4021_IECO_COM_040205>
First published online: 2018



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