Where the assumption that important family decisions would be made by the husband was concerned, the prevailing view was that the choice of the couple’s place of abode would be made by the husband.
Le résultat de l’application de ce principe était que la femme mariée à un étranger acquérait ipso facto la nationalité de son mari par le mariage, acquisition qui entraînait d’ordinaire la perte de sa propre nationalité.