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Civil Jurisdiction over Aircraft

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The Legal Status of Aircraft

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In the previous chapters we have seen that the air space above the territory of a particular State is subject to the sovereignty of that State, that the aircraft possesses a nationality and that it must be regarded as movable property sui generis.

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Honig, J.P. (1956). Civil Jurisdiction over Aircraft. In: The Legal Status of Aircraft. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0987-9_5

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