Which district court hears a case on the supplementary articles of a foundation, depending on where the founder lived at death?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In practice material of this kind, we read the founder's record of address at the time of death, any record of the residence at death or of a lack of domestic address, and the papers showing where the foundation was established, since each of these fixes which district court has jurisdiction.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the ordinary rule as stated: the case under the Civil Act concerning supplementary articles of a foundation is heard by the district court of the place where the founder's address lay at the time of death, so that address alone names the court.
Another reading reads the fallback narrowly: where the founder's address was not in the country, jurisdiction passes to the district court of the place of residence at death or of the place where the foundation was established, but the provision does not say how a choice between those two places is made.
Your judgment
When the founder had no domestic address, what in the file could show whether jurisdiction lies at the residence at death or at the place of establishment?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to alter these jurisdictional rules or to say how the two alternative venues are distinguished, or if a court decision settles which venue governs in a given case.