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Recent Opinions of the General Claims Commission, United States and Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

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Editorial Comment
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1931

References

1 Opinions of Commissioners under the convention of Sept. 8, 1923… . Washington,G. P. O., 1931. 178 p.

2 Opinions, 50; this Journal , April, 1931 (Vol. 25), p. 380.

3 Opinions, 36; this Journal , April, 1931 (Vol. 25), p. 367.

4 Baldwin (U. S.) v. Mexico, ApriIII, 1839, Moore's Arb. 3126; Wilson (U. S.) v. Mexico, March 3, 1849, ibid., 3021; Medina (U. S.) v. Costa Rica, July 2,1860, ibid., 2317; Cinecue (Mexico) v. United States, July 4,1868, ibid., 3127; Danford (U. S.) v. Spain, Feb. 12,1871, ibid., 3148; Oberlander and Messenger (U. S.) v. Mexico, Mar. 2,1897, For. Rel. 1907, p. 370; Canadian Claims for Refund of Hay Duties (Gt. Brit.) v. United States, Aug. 18, 1910, Nielsen's Rep. 347, this Journal , Vol. 19 (1925), p. 795; R. T. Roy (U. S.) v. Great Britain, Nielsen's Rep. 406 and this Journal , ibid., p. 800; De Caro (Italy) v. Venezuela, Feb. 13, 1903, Ralston, 810; Caroline (U. S.) v. Brazil, Moore's Dig. VI, 748; Dick (Germany) v. United States, For. Rel. 1908,356; Tunstall (Gt. Brit.) v. United States, 1885, Moore's Dig. VI, 662.

5 International liability was predicated upon the wrongful acts being “ incompatible with the international obligations of the state,” an important qualification indicating that municipal torts and international torts are separate and, as a rule, not at all parallel offenses; furthermore, an earlier article in the tentative convention, applicable throughout, provided that international responsibility could not be invoked until local remedies had been exhausted.

6 Opinions, 68.

7 Opinions, 157.

8 Ibid., 112.

9 Ibid., 150.

10 Ibid., 121; this Journal , July,(Vol. 25), p. 544.

11 Opinions, 108.

12 Ibid., 112.

13 Ibid., 132.

14 Ibid., 140.

15 Ibid., 146.

16 Ibid., 169.