 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1098 pages
...questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination. For this purpose, where there is no treaty and no controlling executive...they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunal», not for the speculations of their authors concerning what the law ought to be, but for... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1900 - 550 pages
...questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination. For this purpose, where there is no treaty, and no controlling executive...of these, to the works of jurists and commentators . . . not for the speculations of their authors concerning what the law ought to be, but for trustworthy... | |
 | Naval War College (U.S.) - International law - 1904 - 236 pages
...ministered. ' ,, I.-.LJ, -.--n upon it are duly presented for their determination, ror this purpose, where there is no treaty, and no controlling executive...and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence to these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who by years of labor, research and experience,... | |
 | United States. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission - Spain - 1901 - 796 pages
...enforceable by appropriate means in case of infringement. ( Hall, Int. Law, 1. ) (11) Part of our law * * * Where there is no treaty and no controlling executive...had to the customs and usages of civilized nations. (Paquete Habana, 175 US, 700.) The English common law adopts the fundamental principles of international... | |
 | International law - 1915 - 1080 pages
...sources of international law, or rather, the authorities by which it would be bound. "For this purpose, where there is no treaty, and no controlling executive...acquainted with the subjects of which they treat." This decision settles the relation of international law to the municipal law of the United States as... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1918 - 954 pages
...838; Kansas v. Colorado, 206 US 46, 27 Sup. Ct. 655, 51 L. Ed. 956. To ascertain international law, "resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized...nations, and, as evidence of these, to the works of commentators and jurists . . . Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals . . . for trustworthy... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1918 - 962 pages
...838; Kansas v. Colorado, 206 US 46, 27 Sup. Ct. 655, 51 L. Ed. 956. To ascertain international law, "resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized...nations, and, as evidence of these, to the works of commentators and jurists . . . Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals . . . for trustworthy... | |
 | Francisco Mallén - Mexico - 1909 - 70 pages
...questions of right depending upon it are duly presented ror their determination. For this purpose, where there is no treaty, and no controlling executive...had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; tnd, as evidence of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who, by years of labor, research... | |
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For this purpose, where there is no treaty, and no controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations... 
