...matters of 'personal status'. ' Personal status ' is defined by Section 51 as comprising matters of divorce, alimony, maintenance, guardianship, legitimation...administration of the property of absent persons. 287. It will thus be seen that these provisions involve a very large extension of the jurisdiction...

...regarding marriage or 2f Personal divorce, alimony, maintenance, guardianship, legitimation and atu8' adoption of minors, inhibition from dealing with property...administration of the property of absent persons. 52. Moslem Religious Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction Moslem in matters of personal status...

...treatment in some matters. 3 Considered matters of personal status for the purposes of Palestine law were "marriage or divorce, alimony, maintenance, guardianship,...persons who are legally incompetent, successions, will and legacies, and administration of the property of absent persons." 4 Conspicuously absent from...

...the Palestine Orderin-Council — 1922 (3 Laws of Palestine 2569): Matters of personal status mean suits regarding marriage or divorce, alimony, maintenance,...administration of the property of absent persons. 2. See, eg, Rabel, 1 The Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Study 110, 117-120, 161 (2nd ed., 1958); Beale,...

...personal status" in Art. 51 (1) of the Palestine Order-in-Council, 1922: "Matters of personal status mean suits regarding marriage or divorce, alimony, maintenance,...administration of the property of absent persons." Today this list has been reduced with the following matters deleted: "adoption of minors" and "successions,...

...defines which matters of personal status will be given to inclusive jurisdiction of religious courts: marriage or divorce, alimony, maintenance, guardianship,...legacies, and the administration of the property of other persons. Article 52 gives the Moslem religious courts exclusive jurisdiction in matters of personal...

...jurisdiction at the date of this Order, for the purpose of these provisions, matters of personal status mean suits regarding marriage or divorce, alimony, maintenance,...administration of the property of absent persons. 52. Moslem Religious Courts shall lia\e exclusive jurisdiction in matters of personal status of Moslems...