Law No. 555 of June 13, 1912
Legge 13 giugno 1912, n. 555
The pre-1992 citizenship law. Important for cases involving ancestors who naturalised before 1992, as it governed how Italian citizenship was transmitted and lost. Under this law, women could not transmit citizenship to children born before January 1, 1948.
What this law actually does
Article 7: Child of Italian citizen father is Italian by birth regardless of place of birth
Article 8: Naturalisation in a foreign country causes loss of Italian citizenship
Article 11: Naturalised father's loss of citizenship extended to wife and minor children (pre-1948)
Women could not independently transmit citizenship until the 1948 Constitution
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