United States Congressional Serial Set, Utgave 5257

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 - 644 sider
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Side 565 - The commissioners, or in case of their disagreement, the umpire, shall decide all claims upon a basis of absolute equity, without regard to objections of a technical nature, or of the provisions of local legislation.
Side 33 - Summing up the foregoing, we may (in part repeating) say: 1. A State possesses the general right of expulsion ; but, •2. Expulsion should only be resorted to in extreme instances, and must be accomplished in the manner least injurious to the person affected. 3. The country exercising the power must, when occasion demands, state the reason of such expulsion before an international tribunal, and an inefficient reason or none being advanced, accepts the consequences.
Side 20 - It is an accepted maxim of international law, that every sovereign nation has the power, as inherent in sovereignty, and essential to self-preservation, to forbid the entrance of foreigners within its dominions, or to admit them only in such cases and upon such conditions as it may see fit to prescribe.
Side 236 - The principle seems to us to be, that in contracts in which the performance depends on the continued existence of a given person or thing, a condition is implied that the impossibility of performance, arising from the perishing of the person or thing, shall excuse the performance.
Side 67 - and if he shall be of the opinion that the honor of the United States, the principles of public law, or considerations of justice and equity require that the awards, * * * or either of them, should be opened and the cases retried...
Side 64 - If the award Is within the submission and contains the honest decision of the arbitrators after a full and fair hearing of the parties, a court of equity will not set it aside for error, either in law or fact.
Side 154 - If in the case submitted to the Arbitrators either Party shall have specified or alluded to any report or document in its own exclusive possession without annexing a copy, such Party shall be bound, if the other Party thinks proper to apply for it, to furnish that Party with a copy thereof...
Side 151 - Ca. 99, lips v. Stone Mountain, 61 Ga. 387 ; Garrison v. Atlanta, 68 Ga. 64 ; City of Atlanta v. Gate City Gas Light Co. 71 Ga. 106 ; Paulk v. Sycamore, 104 Ga. 24, 30 SE 417, 41 LRA 772, 69 Am. St. Rep. 128; City of Bainbridge v. Reynolds, 111 Ga. 758, 36 SE 935; Salter v. Columbus, 125 Ga. 96, 54 SE 74; Mayor, etc.
Side 81 - caduco " — that is to say, " annulled it " — which act could never have the effect of really annulling the contract, because in cases of bilateral contracts, the nonfulfillment of the pledged obligations by one party does not annul the contract ipso facto, but forms a reason for annulment, which annulment must be asked of the tribunals, and the proper tribunal alone has the power to annul such a contract — this rule of the law of almost all civilized nations being in absolute concordance with...
Side 67 - Majesty during the same period, which may have been presented to either Government for its interposition with the other, and which yet remain unsettled, as well as any other such claims which may be presented within...

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