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Supreme Court, 3 September 1999

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

Jacobien W. Rutgers
Affiliation:
Solicitor, Houthoff Buruma, Amsterdam
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Netherlands Judicial Decisions Involving Questions of Private International Law
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 2000

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1. Generally speaking, under Art. 4 of the Rome Convention, the legal system that applies to a contract is that of the country of the habitual residence of the party who performs, at the time the contract was entered into, the characteristic obligation.

2. HR 19 March 1909, Weekblad van het recht 8844.

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