Notes to Chapter One
1.SHI SHANGKUAN,MINFA ZONGLUN [GENERAL PART OF CIVIL LAW] 87 (2000).
2.See MARTIN WOLFF,PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 110 (2nd ed.,1950).
3.Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Minfadian [Civil Code] (2020) (PRC).
4.French Civil Code,art.725; Spanish Civil Code,art.30.
5.See ZITELMANN,TRENDS OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 90 (1971).
6.MARTIN WOLFF,PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 276 (2nd ed.,1950).
7.German Civil Code,art.20.
8.French Civil Code,art.725.
9.See GERMAN CIVIL CODE,arts.1348-1351.
10.MARTIN WOLFF,PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 277 (2nd ed.,1950).
11.See Swiss Civil Code,art.102,and the English Matrim.Causes Act (1937).
12.ALBERT A.EHRENZWEIG,TREATISE ON THE CONFLICT OF LAWS 247 (1962).
13.SHI SHANGKUAN,MINFA ZONGLUN [GENERAL PART OF CIVIL LAW] 88 (2000).
14.https：//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority#Age_15,last visited on March 25,1017.
15.ERNST RABEL,THE CONFLICT OF LAWS,A COMPARATIVE STUDY,vol.1,200 (1958).
16.FRIEDRICH K.JUENGER,CHOICE OF LAW AND MULTISTATE JUSTICE 41 (2000).
17.JAMES FAWCETT & JANEEN M.CARRUTHERS,CHESHIRE AND NORTH’S PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 154 (14th ed.,2008).
18.GUOJI SIFA [PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW] 248 (Huang Jin ed.,2004).
19.JAMES FAWCETT & JANEEN M.CARRUTHERS,CHESHIRE AND NORTH’S PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 154 (14th ed.,2008)(https://www.daowen.com)
20.Kahn-Freund,THE GROWTH OF INTERNATIONALISM IN ENGLISH PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 155 (1960).
21.JAMES FAWCETT & JANEEN M.CARRUTHERS,CHESHIRE AND NORTH’S PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 154 (14th ed.,2008).
22.Cass.(req.)(Jan.16,1861) S.1861.1.305.
23.ERNST RABEL,THE CONFLICT OF LAWS,A COMPARATIVE STUDY,vol.2,205 (1958).
24.GUOJI SIFA [PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW] 248 (Huang Jin ed.,2004).
25.Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Minfa Tongze [GPCL] art.143 (1986) (PRC).
26.Mo Zhang,International Civil Litigation in China: A Practical Analysis of the Chinese Judicial System,25 B.C.INT’L & COMP.L.REV.83 (2002).
27.Zuigao Renmin Fayuan Guanyu Shiyong Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Minfatongze Ruogan Wenti de Yijian [Supreme People’s Court,Opinions on Application of the General Principle of Civil Law of the People’s Republic of China],92 Zuigao Renmin Fayuan Gongbao 22[Bulletin of Supreme People’s Court] arts.179-181 (1988) (PRC).
28.Ernst Rabel,THE CONFLICT OF LAWS,A COMPARATIVE STUDY,vol.1 (1958),200.
29.Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Shewai Minshi Falvguanxi Shiyongfa [Act on the Application of Laws over Foreign-related Civil Relationships] arts.11,12,13,15 (2010).
30.Id.,at art.20.
31.Id.,at art.12(2).
32.ERNST RABEL,THE CONFLICT OF LAWS,A COMPARATIVE STUDY,vol.2,72-73 (1958).
33.MARTIN WOLFF,PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 294 (2nd ed.,1950).
【注释】
[1]Chinese law is silent on this issue; however,given China is a civil law country,the author submits that China should follow the civil law approach.
[2]The system of declaration of death prevails in Germany and Austria; the system of declaration of absence in France,Japan,Belgium,the Netherlands,Spain,Portugal,and Switzerland; China establishes both systems.
[3]Domicile requires three factors: capacity,residence,and intention,for the detailed discussion on the difference between domicile and residence.