 | 1900 - 1098 Seiten
...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...they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunal», not for the speculations of their authors concerning what the law ought to be, but for... | |
 | United States. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission - 1901 - 796 Seiten
...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...authors concerning what the law ought to be, but for the trustworthy evidence of what the law really is. Hilton v. Guyot (159 US, 113, 163, ItU, 214,215).... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice, William Elijah Fuller, United States. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission - 1907 - 462 Seiten
...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...authors concerning what the law ought to be, but for the trustworthy evidence of what the law really is. //;/1„„ v. Guyot (159 US, 113, 163, 164, 214,... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice, William Elijah Fuller, United States. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission - 1907 - 368 Seiten
...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...authors concerning what the law ought to be, but for the trustworthy evidence of what the law really is. Hilton v. (hiyot (159 IJ. S., 113, 163, 164, 214,215).... | |
 | 1915 - 1080 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Pitt Cobbett - 1909 - 474 Seiten
...pointed out that such works were resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of those authors concerning what the law ought to be, but for trustworthy evidence of what the law really was (d). Having regard to this class of evidence, it was held that an examination of the textwriters... | |
 | Francisco Mallén - 1909 - 70 Seiten
...judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; tnd, as evidence of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who, by years of labor, research ind experience, have made themselves peculiarly well acquainted with the subjects of which they treat.... | |
 | 1916 - 1090 Seiten
...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...of their authors concerning what the law ought to l>e, but for trustworthy evidence of what the law really is. ... Wheaton places among the principal... | |
 | American Society of International Law. Annual Meeting - 1911 - 420 Seiten
...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,...judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their author concerning what the law ought to be, but for trustworthy evidence of what the law really is.11... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby, John Archibald Fairlie, Frederic Austin Ogg - 1911 - 728 Seiten
...itself, "resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations, and as an evidence of this, to the works of jurists and commentators who by years...themselves peculiarly well acquainted with the subjects which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculation of their... | |
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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... 
