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" If the law of nations is to be binding, if the decisions of tribunals charged with the application of that law to international controversies are to be respected, there must be a change in theory, and violations of the law of such a character as to threaten... "
Proceedings of International Conference Under the Auspices of American ... - Page 40
by American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes - 1916
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 83

Law - 1916 - 502 pages
...of the 'parties in conflict as an unfriendly act." These provisions are a considerable step toward a change in the theory of the relation of third powers...what the law requires in that controversy, but they cannot really be strangers to a dispute as to whether the law which is applicable to the circumstances...
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The Living Age, Volume 293

Literature - 1917 - 884 pages
...temper was expressed by Mr. Elihu Root, when he said that "if the law of nations is to be binding . . . there must be a change in theory, and violations of...law maintained and a legal injury to every nation." And he added that next to the preservation of national character the most valuable national possession...
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The American Journal of International Law, Volume 13

Electronic journals - 1919 - 936 pages
...of society." (Writings, ed. 1903, 5: 75.) More recently the theory was clearly stated by Elihu Root, "If the law of nations is to be binding, if the decisions...law maintained and a legal injury to every nation." (This JOURNAL, 10:9.) See also Creasy, "First Platform of International Law," London, 1876, p. 44;...
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The American Journal of International Law, Volume 12

Electronic journals - 1918 - 954 pages
...number of earlier treaties "evidently by an oversight of one of the provisions of the Constitution." 650 "If the law of nations is to be binding, if the decisions...law maintained and a legal injury to every nation." (E. Root, The Outlook for International Law, this JOURNAL, 10: 9.) "That commonwealth is best administered...
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The American Journal of International Law, Volume 12

Electronic journals - 1918 - 962 pages
...number of earlier treaties "evidently by an oversight of one of the provisions of the Constitution." 660 "If the law of nations is to be binding, if the decisions...law maintained and a legal injury to every nation." (E. Root, The Outlook for International Law, this JOURNAL, 10: 9.) "That commonwealth is best administered...
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Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Volume 79

Pan American Union - America - 1945 - 852 pages
...law of such a character as to threaten the peace and order of the community of nations must be deemed a violation of the right of every civilized nation...law maintained and a legal injury to every nation. . . . Rules may be so framed," he thought, "that a policy of aggression cannot be worked out except...
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Addresses on International Subjects

Elihu Root - Law - 1916 - 484 pages
...be binding, if the decisions of tribunals charged with the application of that law to niternational controversies are to be respected, there must be a...what the law requires in that controversy, but they cannot really be strangers to a dispute as to whether the law which is applicable to the circumstances...
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Case and Comment, Volume 23

Law - 1917 - 1062 pages
...international law and the cynical flouting of treaty obligations by some of the parties to the present war: If the law of nations is to be binding, if the decisions...what the law requires in that controversy, but they cannot really be strangers to a dispute as to whether the law which is applicable to the circumstances...
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International Law, Public Law and Jurisprudence

James Brown Scott - International law - 1917 - 896 pages
...of the law of such a character as to threaten the peace and order of the community of nations most be deemed to be a violation of the right of every civilized nation to have the law maintained and n legal Injury to every nation. When a controversy arises between two nations, other nations are Indeed...
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The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Volume 15

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 904 pages
...immediately wronged, and therefore they are strangers to the controversy. As ex-Senator Root has well said: «If the law of nations is to be binding, if the decisions...what the law requires in that controversy, but they cannot really be .strangers to a dispute as to whether the law which is applicable to the circumstances...
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