Reports of the Executive Council for 1913-14 and 1914-15: Embodying the Papers Prepared for the Conference Intended to Have Been Held at the Hague in 1914 ...

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R. Flint & Company, 1915 - Počet stran: 266

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Strana 191 - Since these cases were decided, the parties to the Declaration of Paris have agreed that neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the enemy's flag (Art. 3), and that privateering is and remains abolished (Art. i).
Strana 240 - States of America in Congress assembled, that whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default occurring on the high seas, the Great Lakes or any navigable waters of the United States, the personal representative of the decedent may maintain a suit for damages in the district Courts of the United States in Admiralty for the exclusive
Strana 126 - The International Commission shall be composed of five members, to be appointed as follows : One member shall be chosen from each country by the Government thereof ; one member shall be chosen by each Government from some third country ; the fifth member shall be chosen by common agreement between the two Governments,
Strana 122 - all disputes between them, of every nature whatever, to the settlement of which previous arbitration treaties or agreements do not apply in their terms, or are not applied in fact, shall, when diplomatic methods of adjustment have failed, be referred for investigation and report to a permanent International Commission.
Strana 231 - aux principes du droit public du pays où elle est invoquée. 2° Que, d'après la loi du pays où la décision a été rendue, elle soit passée en force de chose jugée. 3° Que d'après la même loi, l'expédition qui en est produite réunisse les conditions nécessaires à son authenticité. 4° Que les parties aient été légalement citées, représentées ou
Strana 129 - is authorised to examine into and report upon the particular questions or matters referred to it, for the purpose of facilitating the solution of disputes by elucidating the facts, and to define the issues presented by such questions, and also to include in its report such recommendations and conclusions as may be appropriate.
Strana 184 - cargo— and if he violates that obligation by a recurrence to force, the consequence will undoubtedly reach the property of his owner, and it would, I think, extend also to the confiscation of the whole cargo entrusted to his care and thus fraudulently attempted to be withdrawn from the rights of war.
Strana 103 - To put an end to these incessant armaments, and to seek the means of warding off the calamities which threaten the whole world—such is the supreme duty which is to-day imposed upon all States.
Strana 241 - caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas suit for damages shall not be maintained in the Courts of any State or Territory or in the Courts of the United States other than in admiralty.
Strana 102 - The Treaty of Washington and the Geneva Arbitration stand out as the most notable victory in the nineteenth century of the noble art of preventive diplomacy and the most signal exhibition in their history of self-command in two of the three chief democratic Powers of the Western World.

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