International Law Reports
Contributors: Arnold D. McNair (Editor); H. Lauterpacht (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780521463492
Subjects: International law reports; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Politics/International Relations; Air & Space; Law / Air & Space; International
First sentence: THE FACTS.-(See Cases Nos. 68, 70, 72, 75.) The claim of the United States to sovereignty over the Island of Palmas was based principally on the fact of the discovery of that island early in the sixteenth century by Spain, from whom the United States claimed to have acquired the title over the island by cession in the Treaty of Paris of 10 December, 1898.