 | 1905 - 374 pages
...upon any given nation refusing obedience thereto. I do not concur in that contention. In my opinion a law may be established and become international,...time being be possible to enforce obedience to it. " Justice Laudative." — Many suggestions and ideas affecting criminal law are to be found in the... | |
 | 1907 - 324 pages
...not derogate from the authority of the law because that resistance cannot, perhaps, be overcome. Huch resistance merely makes the resisting nation a breaker...for the time being be possible to enforce obedience to\^My answer to the first question put to me by the arbitrator must therefore, for the reasons I have... | |
 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - 1911 - 368 pages
...reply of the learned Chief Justice is as if it had been prepared for a text book on the law of nations. "The answer to such a contention would be that the...time being be possible to enforce obedience to it." But however the matter may appear to have been before the immediate present, there can be no doubt... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1917 - 836 pages
...its adherence, but it leaves the law, to the establishment of which the resisting nation was a part, still subsisting. Could it be successfully contended...time being be possible to enforce obedience to it (Chief Justice Sir Henry Berkeley, Case of the Prometheus (1906), Supreme Court of Honk-Kong, 2 Hong-Kong... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 1922 - 1246 pages
...upon any given nation refusing obedience thereto. I do not concur in that contention. In my opinion a law may be established and become international...time being be possible to enforce obedience to it." Sir Henry Berkeley in The SS Prometheus, Supreme Court of Hongkong, 2 Hongkong Law Reports, 207, 225... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1922 - 896 pages
...obedience thereto by any given nation party to the agreement. The resistance of a nation to a lav? to which it has agreed does not derogate from the...time being be possible to enforce obedience to it. My answer to the first question put to me by the arbitrator must therefore, for the reasons I have... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1924 - 410 pages
...waged. Let us rather ponder the following well-considered judicial utterance, in an international case: "A law may be established and become international,...the time being be possible to enforce obedience to it."81 But there are those who exhort us to discard the halfway measures, the feeble expedients, of... | |
 | 1924 - 970 pages
...essence of law, and the answer which he gave therefore applies to all law, national or international : The resistance of a nation to a law to which it has...the time being be possible to enforce obedience to it.1 Let us turn from the lawyer addressing his brethren, and from the judge deciding a case, to the... | |
 | General Claims Commission (U.S. and Mexico) 1923- - 1929 - 350 pages
...of the law or justify disregard of the law. And if we indulge in speculation, it would not be a rasb conjecture, in the light of experience, that the same...views, and that the Commission " is of the opinion that the action of the 'Agua Prieta ' can hardly be considered as a violation of the law obtaining before... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1936 - 316 pages
...constitute international law up to date. The correct principle is stated in the following passage : A law may be established and become international,...time being be possible to enforce obedience to it. (Moore, International Law and Some Current Illusions, p. 35, citing the judgment of Acting Chief Justice... | |
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In my opinion a law may be established and become international, that is to say binding upon all nations, by the agreement of such nations to be bound thereby, although it may be impossible to enforce obedience thereto by any given nation party to the... 
