G De Nr v Nr

• Jurisdicción: Argentina
• Número de expediente: Case No. 261
• Fecha: 01 Enero 1926
• Emisor: Federal Court of First Instance (Argentina)

Camara Federal de Rosario, Argentina.

Case No. 261

G. de N. R.

and

N. R.

Consuls — Position of — Subjection to the Laws of the Receiving Country — Question of Domicile.

The Facts.—Upon a petition by the wife of a foreign consul against the consul for support and maintenance, it was objected that the Argentine courts had no jurisdiction by reason of the Uruguayan domicile attributed to the consul by the law of Uruguay.

Held by the Court of First Instance: That the Court has jurisdiction. The fact that the Uruguayan law may consider a consul here as domiciled in Montevideo and as merely residing in Rosario is not enough to exclude him from the Argentine Federal law or jurisdiction when he sues or is sued here on private business. It is an entirely inadmissible exaggeration of the principle of the extraterritoriality of foreign agents, even from the point of view of the public character they possess. In particular with respect to consuls...