 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1917 - 340 σελίδες
...administered by the courts of justice of apropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination....where there is no treaty, and no controlling executive and legislative act, or judicial decision, resort must be had to the costoms and usages of civilized... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - 1918 - 1032 σελίδες
...ascertained and administered by the courts when questions of right depending upon it are presented for determination. For this purpose, where there is no...usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these, the courts will look to the works of jurists and commentators, who, by years of labor, research and... | |
 | Frederick Edwin Smith Earl of Birkenhead - 1918 - 464 σελίδες
...admitted by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination....act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the custom and usages of civilised nations.' 8 We may summarise briefly the views expressed in this Summary.... | |
 | James Brown Scott, United States. Supreme Court - 1919 - 572 σελίδες
...administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination....of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who by years of labor, research and experience, have made themselves peculiarly well acquainted with... | |
 | 1919 - 680 σελίδες
...Kansas v. Colorado, 185 US, 125, 146. Kansas v. Colorado, 206 US, 46. 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... | |
 | Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill - 1919 - 398 σελίδες
...recognized the law of nations as an "integral part" of the laws of the land. 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... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1920 - 388 σελίδες
...civilized nations as indicated in the works of jurists and commentators of recognized authority. " Where there is no treaty and no controlling executive...of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who by Argument for the Plaintiff. years of labor, research, and experience have made themselves peculiarly... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 688 σελίδες
...administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination....of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who, by years of labor, research, and experience, have made themselves peculiarly well acquainted with... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 646 σελίδες
...administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination....•of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who. by years of labor, research, and experience, have made themselves peculiarly well actjuainted... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1921 - 1214 σελίδες
...administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction u often aa questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination....of these, to the works of jurists and commentators who by years of labor, research, and experience have made themselves peculiarly well acquainted with... | |
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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... 
