...arbitrators were to be governed by certain principles of international law ; the first of which was " adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title." A chapter is devoted to the history of " The Monroe Doctrine." Mr. Foster believes the Clayton -Bui...

...determined them in the right road. The exact wording of the treaty with Venezuela is as follows :— (1) Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make good title. The Arbitrators may deem exclusive political control of a district, as well as actual settlement...

...violation of such engagements can be made the basis of title, especially as against the nation with whom such treaty was concluded. 14. Rule (a) under Article...treaty is : •' Adverse holding or prescription during ;i period of fifty years shall make a good title. The Arbitrators may deem exclusive political control...

...inconsistent therewith as the Arbitrators shall determine to be applicable to the case: Rules. («.) Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make u good title. The Arbitrators may deem exclusive political control of a district, as well as actual...

...arbitrators shall determine to be applicable to the case. RULES A. Adverse holding or transcription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title. The arbitrators may deem exclusive politiof the future. See upon the entire subject, Heffter chapter v (Ed. Geffken), § 109, and the...

...makes no mention of the rule laid down in the treaty for the guidance of the arbitrators, namely, that "adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title;" nor is this referred to in connection with the paragraph on "Prescription" (p. 118). The Hague Peace...

...Venezuela and Great Britain for determination of the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela: "(a) Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title." (P. 270.) possessed themselves of anything upon a peaceful title." (The Law of Nature and Nations,...

...States and Great Britain were then concerned was submitted to arbitration, Bee Ch. it was agreed that ' Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title.' The part of South America in question had, however, been occupied in a halfhearted and not particularly...

...November 1896) submitting the boundary question to an arbitral tribunal, to be governed by the rule that ' adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title '.1 Thus Cleveland and Olney secured their principle that the whole territory in dispute should be...

...agreement, as in the case of the British Guiana Arbitration in 1897, where the parties agreed that 'adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make good title ' and that ' the arbitrators may deem exclusive political control of a district, as well...