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-

1Warsaw Convention, art. 28.

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

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