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The Ceylon Oil Expropriations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Chittharanjan Amerasinghe
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , April 1964 , pp. 445 - 450
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1964

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References

1 Sec. 34, Act No. 28 of 1961; 1 Int. Legal Materials 126 at 137 (1962).

2 Sec. 5B. 2 Int. Legal Materials 951 at 952 (1963).

3 U. S. Information Service Bulletin of Feb. 8, 1963, as reported in the Times of Ceylon of Feb. 9, 1963.

4 Ibid.

5 See, e.g.,De Visscher, Theories et Rfialitfis en Droit International Public 238 (1953) ; Friedman, Expropriation in International Law 206 (1953); Freeman, Denial of Justice 577 (1938); and Fischer Williams, “International Law and the Property of Aliens,“ 9 Brit. Yr. Bk. Int. Law 1 et seq. (1928).

6 Res. A/1803 (XVII), Dec. 14, 1962; 57 A.J.I.L. 710(1963).

7 307 F. 2d 845; reported in 56 A.J.I.L. 1085 at 1101 (1962).

8 See the U.K. Memorial in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Case (U.K. v.Iran), I.C.J. Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents 106 (1951).

9 In this context the recent statement of Lord McNair, that compensation should he paid either at the time the property is taken or that reasonable steps for the payment of compensation should be taken (see “The Seizure of Property and Enterprises in Indonesia,” 6 Neth. Int. Law Rev. 218 at 243 (1959)), is important in this connection as a concession.

10 See, e.g.,The Case Concerning the Factory at Chorz6w (Claim for Indemnity— Merits), P.C.I.J., Series A, No. 17 (1928) at 51-52; and The Vinland Case (Admin. Dec. No. 7, U. S.-German Mixed Claims Commission), 7 Int. Arb. Awards 243.

11 See The Cooperative Committee on Japanese Canadians v.Atty.-Gen. for Canada, [1947] A.C. 87 at 104, where the principle was recognized as valid.

12 Part V, Sees. 55-65.

13 See the Finnish Ships Arbitration (1934), 3 Int. Arb. Awards 1479.