%0 Journal Article
%T La juridicit¨¦ de la coutume kanak The Juridicity of the Kanak Custom
%A ¨¦tienne Cornut
%J Droit et Cultures
%D 2011
%I L¡¯Harmattan
%X En Nouvelle-Cal¨¦donie, les Kanak peuvent, en vertu de l¡¯article 75 de la Constitution, conserver leur statut personnel coutumier. Bien que Fran ais, ils ne rel¨¨vent pas du statut personnel de droit commun. Ce statut coutumier a des cons¨¦quences autant sur la norme applicable ¨¤ leur situation qu¡¯¨¤ la composition de la juridiction. Si cette s¨¦paration statutaire doit conduire ¨¤ diff¨¦rencier les deux types de sources lors de leur interpr¨¦tation et application, il appara t que la Cour de cassation comme la loi organique de 1999 d¨¦terminent le champ d¡¯application ratione person  et materi  de la coutume sous le prisme du droit commun. Or, il n¡¯est pas certain que cette d¨¦marche, consacr¨¦e, soit pertinente alors que l¡¯¨¦galit¨¦ entre le droit commun et la coutume est conditionn¨¦e par celle, constitutionnelle, des statuts. Il conviendra alors de poser les pr¨¦misses d¡¯une critique de cette approche positiviste de la coutume et du statut civil coutumier, ¨¤ l¡¯aune de questions pos¨¦es par la rencontre des deux statuts, notamment la qualification des notions qui en d¨¦limitent le domaine. In New Caledonia, Kanak can, under the terms of article 75 of the Constitution, preserve their usual personal status. Although French, they do not belong to the personal status of Civil Law. This usual statute has consequences as much on the standard applicable to their situation that with the composition of the jurisdiction. If this statutory separation leads to differenciate the two types of sources during their interpretation and application, it appears that the Cour de cassation and the Organic Law of 1999 determine the field of application of this custom following ratione person  and materi  criteria under the prism of civil law. However, it is not certain that this step, devoted, is relevant whereas the equality between the common right and the custom is conditioned by that, constitutional, of the statutes. It will then be advisable to pose the premises of a criticism of this positivist approach of the custom and usual civil statute, with the ell of questions raised by the meeting held on the two statutes, in particular the qualification of the concepts which delimit the field of it.
%K Nouvelle-Cal¨¦donie
%K coutume kanak
%K juridicit¨¦
%K statut coutumier
%K qualification
%K New-Caledonia
%K Kanak Custom
%K Juridicity
%K Usual Personal Status
%U http://droitcultures.revues.org/2347