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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Certain Property Case (Liechtenstein v Germany)

Susanne Wasum-Rainer, Lukas Wasielewski

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
August 2021

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2022. All Rights Reserved.date: 12 August 2022

Subject(s):
Treaties, scope (temporal and territorial) — Reparation

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 The facts of the case date back to the 1940s. During World War II the former Czechoslovakia was an allied country and a belligerent in the war against Germany. In 1945, it adopted a series of decrees (‘Beneš Decrees’). Among them was Decree No 12/1945 of 21 June 1945, under which agricultural property of all persons belonging to the German and Hungarian people, regardless of their nationality, was confiscated without compensation (Nationality; Property, Right to, International Protection). As defined by this decree, agricultural property included, inter alia,...
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