Article 16Effect and Application of Laws

Real property as well as personal property is

subject to the law of the country where it is stipulated.

However, intestate and testamentary successions, both

with respect to the order of succession and to the

amount of successional rights and to the intrinsic validity

of testamentary provisions, shall be regulated by the

national law of the person whose succession is under

consideration, whatever may be the nature of the

property and regardless of the country wherein said

property may be found. (10a)