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機密

3.

strict

The scheme of the

reciprocity

Convention

does not require

in the sense that the law to be applied

may be that of a non Contracting Party (Article 6).

4.

The Convention applies to revocations (Article 2)

and testamentary dispositions made by 2 or more persons in

one document (Article 4).

5.

Certain

reservations may be made by Contracting

Parties in respect of the determination of the testator's

domicile (Article 9), and oral testamentary dispositions

made by its nationals (Article 10). A reservation may also

made with regard to the non-recognition of foreign forms

testamentary disposition in respect of property situated

be

of

in

the

reserving Party when the law of the place where the

disposition was made is the sole law validating the form,

but the testator, a national of the reserving Party, dies

elsewhere (Article 11).

6.

States

As a general rule, unless Contracting

reserve on the point, the Convention shall apply to all

testamentary dispositions made by a testator who dies after

the Convention's entry into force (Articles 8 and 13).

7.

The United Kingdom ratified the

Convention on

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