Digest of United States Practice in International Law

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General
38
International Organizations
43
MEMBERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION
65
INTERNATIONAL STAFF AND STRUCTURE
75
E FINANCING
77
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
83
F POWERS AND RULES OF ORGANS
84
NonSelfGoverning Territories
90
Service in U S Armed Forces
96
Other Subjects of International
104
Acquisition of Nationality
112
Chapter 3
118
Nationality
120
Passports and Other Travel Documents Travel
130
Chapter 5
131
Representation
132
Deportation
140
Chapter 14
148
Refugees Asylum Statelessness
149
Extradition
159
Bilateral Agreements
168
Provisional Arrest
175
Protection of Human Rights
180
Protection of Human Rights
183
Discrimination
199
Chapter 4
239
Consular Officers and Consulates
249
Special Missions and Trade Delegations
260
THE LAW OF TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 1 Conclusion and Entry into Force
263
Observance Application and Interpretation
277
Amendment and Modification 4 Invalidity Termination and Suspension of Operation
291
Executive Agreements
321
Implementing Agreements 7 International Acts Not Constituting Agreements
325
Chapter 6
328
Jurisdiction Based on Nationality
339
Jurisdiction Based on Agreement with the Territorial State 4 Jurisdiction Based on Universal and Other State Interests 5 Jurisdiction over Vessels 6 J...
340
Sovereign Immunity
342
Acts of Foreign States
368
267
374
Chapter 7
376
Fisheries
386
The Territorial Sea 3 Coastal State Economic Jurisdiction
389
U S U S S
406
U S Brazil
413
Fisheries
417
269
421
The Deep Seabed and the High Seas
422
Straits
431
Canals
435
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442
Ports 9 Marine Environment
445
International Watercourses
447
International Maritime
448
Chapter 8
451
Bilateral Agreements
452
Charter Agreements
455
Aircraft Crimes
456
Domestic Law and Regulation
461
Supersonic Transport
469
Outer Space
471
Meteorology
480
DIPLOMATIC PROTECTION AND INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS 1 Conditions and Procedural Aspects of Assertion of Claim of State Responsibility
484
Substantive Bases for International Claims 2 3 4
486
Peru
491
National Legal Provision for Protection of Foreign Investment Claims Settlement Agreements
492
Agreements for the Protection of Foreign Investment
494
Chapter 10
499
The Trade Act of 1974
507

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Pagina 745 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Pagina 215 - Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Pagina 851 - The paramount consideration in the employment of the staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity. Due regard shall be paid to the importance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geographical basis as possible.
Pagina 95 - Charter, shall be: a. to further international peace and security; b. to promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement; c.
Pagina 663 - Bank (including any dividend or interest thereon) by whomsoever held— (i) which discriminates against such obligation or security solely because it is issued by the Bank; or (ii) if the sole jurisdictional basis for such taxation is the place or currency in which it is issued, made payable or paid, or the location of any office or place of business maintained by the Bank.
Pagina 222 - ... torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of person, unless such assistance will directly benefit the needy people in such country.
Pagina 109 - Court entertains no doubt is the most fundamental of all the rules of law relating to the continental shelf, enshrined in Article 2 of the 1958 Geneva Convention, though quite independent of it, — namely that the rights of the coastal State in respect of the area of continental shelf that constitutes a natural prolongation of its land territory into and under the sea...
Pagina 351 - ... (3) Upon a domestic or foreign corporation or upon a partnership or other unincorporated association which is subject to suit under a common name, by delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to an officer, a managing or general agent, or to any other agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process...
Pagina 107 - Latitude, including all ice shelves, but nothing in the present Treaty shall prejudice or in any way affect the rights, or the exercise of the rights, of any State under international law with regard to the high seas within that area.
Pagina 764 - ... international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law ; c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations ; d. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law.

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