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The Italian Statute on Private International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Andrea Bonomi
Andrea Bonomi*
Affiliation:
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne; University of Trieste
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Italy was one of the first countries to adopt a codified system of conflict-of-law rules in 1865, immediately after the foundation of the Italian State. Drafted under the influence of a well-known expert of private international law, Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, who was the Minister of Justice on that time, these rules were part of the general provisions of the first Italian Civil Code.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , Summer 1999 , pp. 247 - 267
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Copyright © 1999 by the International Association of Law Libraries 

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