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The Relative Value of Authorities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Frank C. Partridge*
Affiliation:
Vermont

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Fourth Session
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1911

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References

1 See note by Mr. Dana, Wheaton's International Law, 8th ed., p. 27; also Calvo's Droit International, 5th ed., Vol. I, p. 158.

2 Vol. 1, No. 4, of the American Journal of International Law.

3 As to meaning of the phrase “sources of international law,” see Lawrence, Principles of International Law, 4th ed., pp. 97 and 96; see also Oppenheim, International Law (1905), p. 22.

4 Oppenheim, International Law, p. 22, See also Elements of International Law, by Gen. George B. Davis, 3d ed. (1908), p. 23.

5 See W. E. Hall, International Law, 5th ed., p. 5.

6 Lawrence, Principles of International Law, 4th ed., p. 101.

7 Columbia Law Review, Vol. 2, No. 8; see also Hall, International Law, 8th ed., p. 7, and Oppenheim, International Law, p. 18.

8 See Lawrence, Principles of International Law, 4th ed., p. 52.

9 See an Appreciation of Arbitration Cases, by Prof. Oppenheim, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 342 and 343.

10 1 Kent Com. 18, quoted with approval by Mr. Justice Gray in The Paquet Habana, 17S U. S. 700 and by Sir Robert Phillimore in his Commentaries, p. 64.

11 175 U. S. 700. See also the language of Lord Chief Justice Alverstone to the same effect in West Rand Central Gold Mining Co. v.The King, L. R. (1905) 2 K. B. 391.

12 Columbia Law Review, Vol. 2, No. 8, citing The Maria (1799), 1 Rob. Adm., p. 363.

13 American Journal of Law, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 344 and 345.

14 Lawrence, Principles of International Law, 4th ed., p. 100.

15 Sir Robert Phillimore, Commentaries on International Law, 3d ed., p. 15. 16 See Calvo, Droit International, p. 1S8; Wilson &,Tucker, International Law, p. 36.

17 Marshall, C. J., Thirty Hogsheads of Sugar v.Boyle, 9 Cranch, 191, 198.

18 See Scott, Cases on International Law, Preface; and cases collected in Moore's International Law Digest, Vol. 1, p. 3 et seq.

19 See generally a note by Mr. Dana, Wheaton's International Law, 8th ed., p. 27; and an interesting discussion of the value of municipal case law by Prof. Oppenheim in the American Journal of International Law, Tol. 2, Ko. 2,p. 336 et seq.

20 T. J. Lawrence, Principles of International Law, 4th ed., pp. 98-112.

21 George G. Wilson, International Law, p. 9.