 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 902 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 972 pages
...of society." (Writings, ed. 1903, 5: 75.) More recently the theory was clearly stated by Klilm Root, "If the law of nations is to be binding, if the decisions...law maintained and a legal injury to every nation." (This JOURNAL, JO: 9.) See also Creasy, "First Platform of International Law," London, 1876, p. 44;... | |
 | International relations - 1915 - 1100 pages
...threaten the peace and order of the community of nations must be treated by analogy to criminal law. They must be deemed to be a violation of the right of every...law maintained and a legal injury to every nation. Next to the preservation of national character the most valuable possession of all peaceable nations,... | |
 | North American review - 1920 - 880 pages
...nation inflicting it. There has been no general recognition of the right of other nations to object. ... 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... | |
 | John Eugene Harley - International law - 1921 - 148 pages
...a crime against civilization." l " If," said Mr. Root, " 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." 2 Several clauses of the Covenant actually apply the change in the theory of international law which... | |
 | Debates and debating - 1923 - 130 pages
...nation inflicting it. There has been no general recognition of the right of other nations to object. . . 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... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1915 - 574 pages
...threaten the peace and order of the community of nations must be treated by analogy to criminal law. They must be deemed to be a violation of the right of every...law maintained and a legal injury to every nation. Next to the preservation of national character the most valuable possession of all peaceable nations,... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 510 pages
...other 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... | |
 | Bruce Williams - International law - 1927 - 388 pages
...opinion at a time when violations of international law were more conspicuous than its observance : If the law of nations is to be binding, if the decisions...law maintained and a legal injury to every nation. . . . International laws violated with impunity must soon cease to exist and every state has a direct... | |
 | Julia Emily Johnsen - 1924 - 128 pages
...nation inflicting it. There has been no general recognition of the right of other nations to object. . . 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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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... 
