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. Pacific Islands Pilot - Page 951897Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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