UNLAWFUL ACTS UNDER ARUBAN LAW

Several requirements apply

Article 6:162 section 1 of the Aruba Civil Code (Aruba CC) stipulates four conditions for someone’s obligation to compensate damage based on an unlawful act (tort):

  • A person has committed an unlawful act (‘onrechtmatige daad’) against another person; and
  • The act can be attributed (‘toegerekend’) to that person; and
  • Some other person has suffered damage (‘schade’); and
  • The unlawful act has caused these damages (‘causaal verband’).
  • Article 6:163 Aruba CC provides for an exception to the general rule of article 6:162 Aruba CC: “There is no obligation to repair damage when the violated norm does not have …
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    DUTCH CARIBBEAN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

    The legal effects doctrine: an exception to the lex loci delicti rule

    Under Dutch Caribbean rules of private international law, a claim arising from an unlawful act is governed, in the absence of a choice of jurisdiction by the parties, by the law of the country were the unlawful act was committed (lex loci delicti). However, this rule may possibly not apply if the tortfeasor and the injured party are both residing in a country other than that where the unlawful act was committed and if the legal effects occur entirely in the other country. This is the so-called legal …
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