| James W. Ely - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 286 pages
...jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination. For this purpose, where there is no treaty, and no controlling...had to the customs and usages of civilized nations. 3 He qualified the binding effect of customary international law, however, by observing that courts... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Business & Economics - 1995 - 166 pages
...that customary international law ("the customs and usages of civilized nations") is part of US law "where there is no treaty and no controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision "65 Furthermore, while the recently ratified Covenant clearly creates a solemn legal obligation upon... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Business & Economics - 1996 - 164 pages
...that customary international law ("the customs and usages of civilized nations") is part of US law "where there is no treaty and no controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision ... ." 65 Furthermore, while the recently ratified Covenant clearly creates a solemn legal obligation... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - Justice, Administration of - 1900 - 420 pages
...jurisdiction as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination. For this purpose, where there is no treaty and no controlling...had to the customs and usages of civilized nations, and, as evidence of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, not for the speculations of their... | |
| A. F. Kassim - Law - 1997 - 476 pages
...jurisdiction as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination. For this purpose, where there is no treaty and no controlling...had to the customs and usages of civilized nations and, as evidence of these, to the works of jurists and commentators who by years of labor, research,... | |
| Juan F. Perea - Law - 1997 - 368 pages
...explained customary law and general principles as sources of international law in our domestic system: where there is no treaty, and no controlling executive...judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usage of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these, to the works of jurists and commentators who... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - History - 2000 - 848 pages
...decision or applicable treaty contradicts this principle, and the US Supreme Court has established that "where there is no treaty and no controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision," works of international legal scholars are acceptable as evidence of the law. President William Clinton... | |
| Benedetto Conforti, Francesco Francioni - Political Science - 1997 - 490 pages
...violating principles of public international law. Public international law controls, however, only 'where there is no treaty and no controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision...'.4* When international law becomes part of domestic law through the legislative process,... | |
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