Opinions of Commissioners Under the Convention Concluded September 8, 1923, as Extended by Subsequent Conventions, Between the United States and Mexico

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927
 

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Page 316 - ... the treatment of an alien, in order to constitute an international delinquency, should amount to an outrage, to bad faith, to wilful neglect of duty, or to an insufficiency of governmental action so far short of international standards that every reasonable and impartial man would readily recognize its insufficiency.
Page 221 - In view of the foregoing, I am of the opinion that the restrictions of section 202 are applicable to purchases in large quantities of all commodities.
Page 86 - The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself.
Page 138 - XXXIV-XLII of the Treaty of May 8, 1871, between the United States and Great Britain...
Page 21 - ... no claim shall be disallowed or rejected by the Commission by the application of the general principle of international law that the legal remedies must be exhausted as a condition precedent to the validity or allowance of any claim.
Page 79 - The international delinquency in this case is one of its own specific type, separate from the private delinquency of the culprit. The culprit is liable for having killed or murdered an American national; the Government is liable for not having measured up to its duty of diligently prosecuting and properly punishing the offender.
Page 47 - denial of justice" covers not only governmental acts implying so-called indirect liability, but also acts of direct liability, and if, on the other hand, "denial of justice" is applied to acts of executive and legislative authorities as well as to acts of judicial authorities - as is often being done - there would exist no international wrong which would not be covered by the phrase "denial of justice," and the expression would lose its value as a technical distinction.
Page 14 - The law of nature may have been helpful, some three centuries ago, to build up a new law of nations, and the conception of inalienable rights of men and nations may have exercised a salutary influence, some one hundred and fifty years ago, on the development of modern democracy on both sides of the ocean, but they have failed as a durable foundation of either municipal or international law; and cannot be used in the present day as substitutes for positive municipal law, on the one hand, and for positive...
Page 117 - A belligerent party which violates the provisions of the said Regulations shall, if the case demands, be liable to pay compensation. It shall be responsible for all acts committed by persons forming part of its armed forces.
Page 201 - Article 3 of the Agreement of August 18, 1910, between the United States and Great Britain...

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