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Table of Contents
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II. Method of intervention ................................................................................................... 421
III. Classification/Characterisation as a method for avoiding
recourse to public policy ................................................................................................425
IV. Relationship with other Articles of the Regulation ...................................................... 427
V. Relevant case law regarding the content of public policy in succession under
Article 33 of the GrCC with emphasis on the Greek law prohibiting agreements
on succession and joint wills ........................................................................................... 428
VI. Other examples regarding the potential intervention of public policy in the
context of the Regulation with emphasis on reserved shares ....................................... 431
Article 36 – States with more than one legal system – territorial conflicts of laws .... 437
I. Introduction .......................................................................................................................438
II. The application of internal conflict-of-laws rules of the lex causae
(para. 1): The general rule............................................................................................... 439
III. Lack of rules for the inter-territorial conflicts within the legal order of
the lex causae (para. 2): The alternative solution applicable ....................................... 439
IV. The issue of the formal validity of dispositions of property upon death made
in writing (Article 36(3)) ................................................................................................440
Article 37 – States with more than one legal system – inter-personal
conflicts of laws .................................................................................................. 442
Article 38 – Non–application of Regulation 650/2012 to internal conflicts
of laws .................................................................................................................. 443
CHAPTER IV
Recognition, Enforceability
and Enforcement of Decisions
Article 39 – Recognition ........................................................................................................ 445
I. Introduction - The concept of recognition and the legal consequences of
the decision.......................................................................................................................445
II. Automatic recognition ..................................................................................................... 446
III. Recognition process.........................................................................................................447
1. The principal recognition process .................................................................................... 448
2. The negative declaratory relief action regarding non-recognition ...................................449
3. Incidental recognition ..................................................................................................... 450
Article 40 – Grounds of non-recognition ........................................................................... 451
I. Introductory remarks .........................................................................................................451
II. Grounds of non-recognition............................................................................................. 453
1. First ground: Manifest opposition to public policy in the Member State
in which recognition is sought ........................................................................................453
2. Second ground: lack of service or improper service and the fundamental
right of defence ............................................................................................................... 460