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Hague Tribunal
by the International Peace Conference of 1899 It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of international law nominated by the signatory powers From these persons an arbitration tribunal is chosen by the parties to a
Blockade
the offending party, when captured, is the condemnation usually of both the ship and the cargo. Consult Hall's International Law. Pacific blockades, i.e., blockades of the ports of a power with whom the blockading power is not at … practised in fact, as those of Greek ports in 1827 and 1897; but such blockades are unrecognized by international law.
Treaty
nations or sovereign; an international agree-ment concluded between two or more states is written form and governed by international law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1507
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jus cogens
jus cogens [New Latin, literally, constraining law] : a principle of international law that is based on values taken to be fundamental to the international community and that cannot be set
statute
2 : an act of a corporation or its founder intended as a permanent rule 3 : an international instrument setting up an agency and regulating its scope or authority [the of the International Court of Justice] … statute [Latin statutum law, regulation, from neuter of statutus, past participle of statuere to set up, station, from status position, state] 1
Sovereignty
powers are derived; the inter-national independence of a State combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without foreign dictation; also a political society or State which is sovereign and independent, Black's Law Dictionary,
Renvoi
Renvoi, a term employed in private international law to denote the sending, or determination, of a matter to or according to the law of a tribunal
Lex loci contractus
v. Ogden, 1908, P. 46; CONFICT OF LAWS; and consult Dicey's Conflict of Laws, and Westlake on Private International Law.
By-laws, or bye-laws
of 2002), s. 3 (c)] A rule or administrative provision adopted by an association or corporation for its internal governance; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Lawful, Legal
Dictionarily 'litigious' means 'disputed' (Concise Oxford Dictionary) or 'disputable' or 'marked by intention to quarrel' (Webster Third New International Dictionary), 'inviting controversy', 'relating to or marked by litigation', 'that which is the subject of law suit'. (Black's
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