 | China - 1917 - 568 pages
...such provisions, the Court shall apply the rules of international law. If no generally recogni/.ed rule exists, the Court shall give judgment in accordance...with the general principles of justice and equity." But this proposed court, admirably conceived as it was, has not as yet been instituted, because several... | |
 | Henri La Fontaine - International cooperation - 1916 - 202 pages
...the rules of international law. If no generally recognized rules exist, the competent jurisdiction shall give judgment in accordance with the general principles of justice and equity. ART. 52.—The States pledge themselves to submit in good faith to the decisions of the competent jurisdictions... | |
 | George William Thomson Omond - Maritime law - 1916 - 88 pages
...were to " apply the rules of international law." If no generally recognized rule existed, they were to give judgment " in accordance with the general principles of justice and equity." But the judges might not be able to decide what were the general principles of justice and equity;... | |
 | Science - 1917 - 876 pages
...international prize court. The conference agreed to establish such a court and provided in articie 7 of the treaty that in the absence of special treaty...agreement as to what the rules of international law were, nnd that different nations had different ideas as to what justice and equity wouid require, and that... | |
 | 1917 - 892 pages
...article 7 of the treaty that in the absence of special treaty provisions governing the case pre•ented " the court shall apply the rules of International law....call for the action of a court there was no general n green icnt as to what the rules of international law were, and that different uutions had different... | |
 | Simeon Davidson Fess - Germany - 1917 - 464 pages
...proceedings, the court is governed by the provisions of the said treaty. In the absence of such provisions• the court shall apply the rules of international law....with the general principles of justice and equity. The above provisions apply equally to questions relating to the order and mode of proof. If in accordance... | |
 | Sir Thomas Barclay - Declaration of London - 1917 - 352 pages
...of such provisions, the Court shall apply the rules of International Law. If no generally recognised rule exists, the Court shall give judgment in accordance...with the general principles of justice and equity." The original British idea was " to secure the adaptation " of the machinery of the existing Hague Court... | |
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If a question of law to be decided is covered by a treaty in force between the belligerent captor and a Power which is itself, or whose subject or citizen is, a party to the proceedings, the court is governed by the provisions of the said treaty. In the... 
