Actions Commenced under the Conventions

• Author: John D. Holding
• Pages: 61-69

Chapter 9: Actions Commenced under

the Conventions

A. JURISDICTION

1) Four Bases of Jurisdiction

The Warsaw Convention provides four bases for judicial jurisdic-

tion.1These were adopted in the Montreal Convention, which

added a fifth one.2

The first four jurisdictions are the following state territories:

• where the carrier is ordinarily resident

• where the carrier has its principal place of business

• where the carrier has an establishment or place of business

through which the contract was made

• the place of destination

i) “Ordinarily Resident” (the Montreal Convention refers to the

“domicile”): The place where the main corporate administra-

1 Warsaw Convention, art. 28.

2 Montreal Convention, art. 33, para. 2.

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