Practice question
A party proves a foreign internal testamentary rule but claims that proof necessarily also proves a different foreign domicile-referral rule, which was never established. Which is correct?
- Every internal rule conclusively proves all foreign conflicts provisions.
- The two functions can never be distinguished.
- The heir's signature supplies the missing foreign statute.
- Foreign rules are automatically whatever is most favorable.
- Proof of the internal rule alone does not automatically establish that separate conflicts rule.
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles13-17 and37-46: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Aznar v. Garcia, G.R.L-16749, January31,1963, MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1963/jan1963/gr_l-16749_1963.html
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