 | 1903 - 658 pages
...controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these,...acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their authors concerning... | |
 | 1900 - 1098 pages
...controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations, and, as evidence of these,...acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunal», not for the speculations of their authors concerning... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1900 - 550 pages
...controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations ; and, as evidence 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - 1902 - 808 pages
...the trolling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these,...acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their authors concerning... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1903 - 832 pages
...controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these,...acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their authors concerning... | |
 | United States. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission - 1901 - 796 pages
...controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these,...acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their authors concerning... | |
 | 1906 - 1070 pages
...controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations ; and, as evidence of...acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their authors concerning... | |
 | Howard Jason Rogers - 1906 - 902 pages
...controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these,...acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their authors concerning... | |
 | 1915 - 1080 pages
...controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these,...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... | |
 | 1907 - 526 pages
...controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these,...acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their authors concerning... | |
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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; and, as evidence of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who... 
