Ley 33 de 1992

This preamble identifies Law 33 of 1992 as approving the treaties on international civil law and international commercial law signed in Montevideo.

A person’s capacity is governed by the laws of their domicile.

Changing domicile does not change capacity already acquired through emancipation, reaching majority, or judicial authorization.

The State, as a legal person, may acquire rights and take on obligations in another State’s territory, subject to that State’s laws.

Private legal persons are governed by the laws of the country where they are recognized, may exercise their rights outside their place of institution, and must follow the host State’s rules for acts within their special purpose.

The law of the place where a person lives determines the conditions for that residence to count as domicile.

Parents, tutors, and curators are domiciled in the State whose laws govern the functions they perform.

Persons who are legally incapable are treated as having the domicile of their legal representatives.

El artículo dice cuál es el domicilio de los cónyuges y que la mujer separada judicialmente conserva el del marido hasta constituir otro.

Si una persona no tiene domicilio conocido, su domicilio se entiende ubicado en el lugar de su residencia.

For an absent person’s assets, the legal effects of the declaration of absence are determined by the law where the assets are located. Other legal relations of the absent person continue under the law that previously governed them.

La capacidad para casarse, la forma del matrimonio y su validez se rigen por la ley del lugar de celebración; los Estados signatarios no están obligados a reconocer ciertos matrimonios con impedimentos específicos.

Los cónyuges tienen que seguir las leyes del domicilio matrimonial para sus relaciones personales; si cambian de domicilio, pasa a regir el nuevo domicilio.

The law of the matrimonial domicile governs marital separation and whether a marriage can be dissolved, if the stated cause is accepted by the law of the place where the marriage was celebrated.

La patria potestad, en cuanto a derechos y deberes personales, se rige por la ley del lugar donde se ejerce.

Los derechos de la patria potestad sobre los bienes de los hijos, y los actos de enajenación u otros que los afecten, se rigen por la ley del Estado donde estén situados esos bienes.

The law governing the marriage ceremony determines legitimate filiation and legitimation by a later marriage.

Questions about the legitimacy of filiation, when not tied to the validity or nullity of the marriage, are governed by the law of the spouses’ domicile at the time the child is born.

Rights and obligations concerning illegitimate filiation are governed by the law of the state where they are to be made effective.

La tutela y la curatela se rigen por la ley del lugar del domicilio de los incapaces.

Los demás Estados signatarios deben reconocer el cargo de tutor o curador discernido en cualquiera de los Estados signatarios.

Tutela y curatela, en lo que respecta a los derechos y obligaciones que imponen, se rigen por la ley del lugar donde se discernió el cargo.

Tutors and curators must exercise their powers over property outside the ward’s domicile under the law where the property is located.

The legal mortgage for incapacitated persons takes effect only if the law of the state where the tutor or curator acts matches the law of the state where the affected assets are located.

Urgent measures on spousal relations, parental authority, and guardianship are governed by the law of the place where the spouses, parents, guardians, or curators reside.

The remuneration of parents, tutors, and curators, and how it is set, is governed by the law of the state where those offices were appointed.

Goods are governed exclusively by the law of the place where they are located for matters of quality, possession, alienability, and real rights.

Los buques en aguas no jurisdiccionales se consideran situados en su lugar de matrícula.

Cargoes on ships in non-jurisdictional waters are treated as located at the goods’ final destination.

Credit rights are deemed located where the related obligation must be performed.

Changing the situation of movable goods does not affect acquired rights, but interested parties must meet the substantive or formal requirements of the law of the new location to acquire or keep those rights.

Third parties’ acquired rights over the same goods take priority over the first buyer’s rights if they were acquired under the law of the place of the new situation and before the stated requirements are completed.

The law of the place where a contract must be performed determines whether it must be in writing and what kind of document is required.

This article says the same law governs contracts in all respects: their existence, nature, validity, effects, consequences, and execution.

This article assigns the governing law for different kinds of contracts based on where the thing was located, the debtor’s domicile, or the place where the services will produce effects.

The exchange contract is governed by the law of the parties’ common domicile if they have one at the time of the exchange; if not, it is governed by the law of the place where the exchange was made.

Accessory contracts are governed by the law applicable to the principal obligation they refer to.

Contracts made by correspondence or through an agent are governed by the law of the place where the offer was sent from.

Obligations that arise without a contract are governed by the law of the place where the lawful or unlawful act happened.

Los instrumentos públicos se rigen por la ley del lugar donde se otorgan, y los instrumentos privados por la ley del lugar de cumplimiento del contrato.