Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Arbitration: The Printed Argument on Behalf of the United States of Venezuela Before the Tribunal of Arbitration ...Evening post job printing house, 1898 |
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... precise and exact . Each and all of these terms is to be given full force and effect in determining the merits of any claim of adverse holding . Even in the case of individual proprietors , acts are TREATY OF ARBITRATION . 39.
... precise and exact . Each and all of these terms is to be given full force and effect in determining the merits of any claim of adverse holding . Even in the case of individual proprietors , acts are TREATY OF ARBITRATION . 39.
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... , the act of its subjects was illegal , and while the law remained in force the Dutch sovereign could not derive any dominion from the act . Similarly , in 1850 , when Great Britain entered into TREATY OF ARBITRATION . 43.
... , the act of its subjects was illegal , and while the law remained in force the Dutch sovereign could not derive any dominion from the act . Similarly , in 1850 , when Great Britain entered into TREATY OF ARBITRATION . 43.
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... force , Great Britain could not take advantage of such a settlement as an adverse holder , because by her own treaty she had expressly prohibited and rendered illegal such an act . Fifthly ; The settlement must be actual . In the case ...
... force , Great Britain could not take advantage of such a settlement as an adverse holder , because by her own treaty she had expressly prohibited and rendered illegal such an act . Fifthly ; The settlement must be actual . In the case ...
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... force . No holding by force , against the protest of the State whose territory has been seized , will ever ripen into a title by pre- scription . As between individuals the bringing of an action arrests the running of the statute ...
... force . No holding by force , against the protest of the State whose territory has been seized , will ever ripen into a title by pre- scription . As between individuals the bringing of an action arrests the running of the statute ...
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... force , in the face of the protest of a weaker Power holding the prior title , it could have , and should have , but little significance in determining the question of adverse holding . All the circumstances surrounding the claim are to ...
... force , in the face of the protest of a weaker Power holding the prior title , it could have , and should have , but little significance in determining the question of adverse holding . All the circumstances surrounding the claim are to ...
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Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Arbitration: The Printed Argument ..., Band 2 Venezuela Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1898 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abandonment acquired acts actual occupation actual settlement adverse holding adverse possession Agreement of 1850 Amacura America Arbitrators asserted authorities Barima Barima-Waini boundary line Britain British claim British Counter-Case British Government British Guiana cession charter claim of right colonists colony Company's conquest controversy Cuyuni Cuyuni River disputed territory district dominion Dutch Dutch claim Dutch title Dutch West India effective occupation Essequibo established exclusive extend extreme claim fact Governor grant Guayana Indians interior international law land letter limits Lord Aberdeen Lord Salisbury Majesty's Government Massaruni ment Moruca mouth nation Netherlands Orinoco party places plantations political control Pomeroon principle province question reference region Remonstrance river rule Santo Thome says Schomburgk Line settled sion sovereign sovereignty Spain Spaniards statement States-General Storm subjects terra nullius territorial claim territory in dispute tion title by discovery trade Treaty of Munster Tribunal Venezuela Venezuelan Government Waini West India Company whole
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Seite 187 - But, as they were all in pursuit of nearly the same object, it was necessary, in order to avoid conflicting settlements and consequent war with each other, to establish a principle which all should acknowledge as the law by which the right of acquisition, which they all asserted, should be regulated as between themselves.
Seite 187 - This principle was, that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects, or by whose authority, it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Seite 278 - The usage of the world is, if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered territory as a mere military occupation, until its fate shall be determined at the treaty of peace. If it be ceded by the treaty, the acquisition is confirmed, and the ceded territory becomes a part of the nation to which it is annexed, either on the terms stipulated in the treaty of cession, or on such as its new master shall impose.
Seite 33 - In deciding the matters submitted to the Arbitrators they shall be governed by the following three rules, which are agreed upon by the High Contracting Parties as rules to be taken as applicable to the case...
Seite 30 - The tribunal shall investigate and ascertain the extent of the territories belonging to or that might lawfully be claimed by the United Netherlands or by the Kingdom of Spain, respectively, at the time of the acquisition by Great Britain of the Colony of British Guiana — and shall determine the boundary line between the Colony of British Guiana and the United States of Venezuela.
Seite 54 - The arbitrators may recognize and give effect to rights and claims resting on any other ground whatever valid according to international law and on any principles of international law which the arbitrators may deem to be applicable to the case and which are not in contravention of the foregoing rule.
Seite 278 - The sovereignty of the United States over the territory was, of course, suspended, and the laws of the United States could no longer be rightfully enforced there, or be obligatory upon the inhabitants who remained and submitted to the conquerors. By the surrender the inhabitants passed under a temporary allegiance to the British government, and were bound by such laws, and such only, as it chose to recognize and impose.
Seite 188 - So early as the year 1496 her monarch granted a commission to the Cabots to discover countries then unknown to Christian people, and to take possession of them in the name of the king of England. Two years afterwards, Cabot proceeded on this voyage, and discovered the continent of North America, along which he sailed as far south as Virginia. To this discovery the English trace their title. In this first effort made by the English government to acquire territory on this continent we perceive a complete...
Seite 34 - Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title. The arbitrators may deem exclusive political control of a district, as well as actual settlement thereof, sufficient to constitute adverse holding or to make title by prescription.
Seite 240 - Netherlands, with the exclusive privilege to traffic and plant colonies on the coast of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope ; on the coast of America, from the straits of Magellan to the remotest north.