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" International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination. "
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Constitutional Diplomacy

Michael J. Glennon - Law - 1990 - 382 pages
...incorporation of international law into United States domestic law, the Court stated: International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for...
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International Law Reports: Volume 85, Volume 85

E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - Business & Economics - 1991 - 788 pages
...S.Ct at 302. The Court therefore held that the condemnation was improper because "international law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction." Id. at 700, 20 S.Ct. at 299. Justice Gray, writing for the Court, qualified...
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FBI Authority to Seize Suspects Abroad: Hearing Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights - Arrest - 1991 - 144 pages
...it violated international law. In reaching this conclusion, Justice Gray stated, "International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for...
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Liberation Struggles in International Law

Christopher O. Quaye - Law - 1991 - 414 pages
...the opinion of the court in the case of Paquete Habana, Justice Gray said as much: International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the Courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for...
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Regulating Covert Action: Practices, Contexts, and Policies of Covert ...

William Michael Reisman, Reisman, William Michael Reisman, William Michael, Reisman, James E. Baker - Law - 1992 - 264 pages
...held that the vessels were not subject to capture under customary international law. International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for...
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Kidnapping Suspects Abroad: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights - Law - 1993 - 324 pages
...century. In the classic case The Paquete Habana. the Supreme Court stated that, "International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction as often as questions of right depending upon it are presented for their...
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage

Bryan A. Garner - Business & Economics - 2001 - 990 pages
...international law, or the conflict of laws. In this broader sense, international law is concerned with "the rights of persons within the territory and dominion...reason of acts, private or public, done within the dominions of another nation . . . ." Hilton v. Guyot, 159 US 113, 163 (1895). internecine = mutually...
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Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos ...

Inter-American Commission On Human Rights/La Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 1192 pages
...(See The Paquete Habana, 175 US 677, 700 (1900.) The Court held in that case that: "international Law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the Courts of Justice of appropriate jurisdiction... For this purpose, where there is no treaty, and no controlling legislative...
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The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888-1910

James W. Ely - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 286 pages
...for a majority of six, Justice Horace Gray formulated a much quoted proposition: International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for...
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Indigenous Peoples in International Law

S. James Anaya - Indigenous peoples - 1996 - 282 pages
...premise, emphasized by the Supreme Court decades later in The Paquete Habana,50 that "[international law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, and as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented...
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