Jurisdiction of the Courts in Matters of Personal Status

Type

Decision

Number

109

Date of the text

14/05/1935

Official Gazette

published in 1935

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

2

What it provides

This decree establishes that only the civil courts have jurisdiction over personal status suits involving one or more foreigners, where at least one of them is a national of a country whose personal status is governed by civil law.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1935. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.