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Status libertatis (Latin for 'status of liberty') is the Italian legal concept of a person's free civil status — their freedom from legal disabilities. In 1948 cases, petitioners argue that the pre-1948 gender restriction violated their status libertatis by denying them equal citizenship rights.
The 2009 Cassazione ruling that opened the 1948 path relied in part on status libertatis arguments, holding that the pre-1948 restriction was incompatible with the constitutional guarantee of equality.
Status libertatis is also relevant in cases involving statelessness, denaturalization, and citizenship deprivation.
Related terms
A 1948 case is a judicial petition for Italian citizenship filed in the civil court of Rome, available to descendants of Italian women who gave birth before January 1, 1948.
Jure sanguinis (Italian for 'right of blood') is the Italian citizenship-by-descent regime, which has no generational limit and is the most accessible CBD regime in Europe.
The anagrafe is the Italian civil registry office that maintains records of residents, births, marriages, and deaths in each Italian commune (municipality).
An atto di nascita is an Italian birth certificate, retrieved from the anagrafe (civil registry) of the commune where the person was born.
Stato civile (civil status) refers to the Italian system of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, maintained by the anagrafe in each commune.
A comune is an Italian municipality — the basic unit of local government. There are 7,900+ comuni in Italy, each with its own anagrafe (civil registry).