Digest of United States Practice in International Law

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Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, 1986

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Pagina 346 - ARTICLE 38 1. The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply : a. International conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; b.
Pagina 422 - Recourse may be had to supplementary means of interpretation, including the preparatory work of the treaty and the circumstances of its conclusion, in order to confirm the meaning resulting from the application of Article 31, or to determine the meaning when the interpretation according to Article 31: (a) leaves the meaning ambiguous or obscure; or (b) leads to a result which is manifestly absurd or unreasonable.
Pagina 71 - Actions may be brought against the Bank only in a court of competent jurisdiction in the territories of a member in which the Bank has an office, has appointed an agent for the purpose of accepting service or notice of process, or has issued or guaranteed securities.
Pagina 690 - The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military manoeuvres on celestial bodies shall be forbidden.
Pagina 674 - Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
Pagina 102 - Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America...
Pagina 424 - Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Pagina 674 - The exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development, and shall be the province of all mankind.
Pagina 421 - A treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of its object and purpose.
Pagina 398 - When it appears from the limited number of the negotiating states and the object and purpose of a treaty that the application of the treaty in its entirety between all the parties is an essential condition of the consent of each one to be bound by the treaty, a reservation requires acceptance by all the parties. "3. When a treaty is a constituent instrument of an international organization and unless it otherwise provides, a reservation requires the acceptance of the competent organ of that organization.

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