United States and Chilean Claims Commission: Established by Virtue of the Convention of May 24, 1897, to Revise the Convention of August 7, 1892. Minutes ... (1st-25th Session, June 15, 1900 - June 18, 1901, and Decisions ... No. 1-21), Τεύχη 1-21

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Σελίδα 12 - ... and further engage that every such claim, whether or not the same may have been presented to the notice of, made, preferred, or laid before the said commission, shall, from and after the conclusion of the proceedings of the said commission, be considered and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmissible.
Σελίδα 39 - It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal being.
Σελίδα 38 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence.
Σελίδα 7 - The high contracting parties agree that all claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals, citizens of the United States...
Σελίδα 80 - When private individuals of one nation spread themselves through another as business or caprice may direct, mingling indiscriminately with the inhabitants of that other, or when merchant vessels enter for the purposes of trade, it would be obviously inconvenient and dangerous to society, and would subject the laws to continual infraction, and the government to degradation, if such individuals or merchants did not owe temporary and local allegiance, and were not amenable to the jurisdiction of the...
Σελίδα 80 - Nor can the foreign sovereign have any motive for wishing such exemption. His subjects thus passing into foreign countries, are not employed by him, nor are they engaged in national pursuits. Consequently there are powerful motives for not exempting persons of this description from the jurisdiction of the country in which they are found, and no one motive for requiring it. The implied license, therefore, under which they enter can never be construed to grant such exemption But in all respects different...
Σελίδα 6 - The present treaty of peace, amity, commerce, and navigation shall be approved and ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof...
Σελίδα 9 - The Commissioners so named shall meet in the city of Halifax, in the province of Nova Scotia at the earliest convenient period after they have been respectively named, and shall before proceeding to any business, make and subscribe a solemn declaration that they will impartially and carefully examine and decide...
Σελίδα 49 - ... or both, for the purpose of a common undertaking and the acquisition of a common profit; and the gain or loss is to be proportionately shared between them.
Σελίδα 9 - They shall' be bound to receive and consider all written documents or statements which may be presented to them by or on behalf of the respective governments in support of or in answer to any claim, and to hear, if required, one person on each side on behalf of each government, as counsel or agent for such government, on each and every separate claim.

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