On Nationality in the Republic of Haiti

This 32-page offprint from the Revue générale de droit international public, published in Paris by A. Pedone in 1902, studies the Haitian legislation that governed nationality from the declaration of independence to the date of writing. The author notes that difficulties in 1882 and 1897 between the Haitian government and the British and German governments led Haiti to see international treaties on nationality and naturalization as the way to avoid such conflicts.

The study opens with the colonial period, when birth place alone determined nationality, with exceptions for Jews, Africans and European indentured servants. A first part covers the law before the Constitution of 1889, including the constitutions of 1805, 1806, 1816, 1867 and 1874 and the law of October 30, 1860 on marriages between Haitians and foreigners. A second part sets out the law in force under the Constitution of 1889. The file is a digitized copy from the Law Library Microform Consortium made available through the University of Florida Digital Collections, and its OCR is imperfect.