Open Sea — Salvage on the High Seas — Brussels Convention, 1910, Treated as International Law — Adoption by Mixed Courts in Egypt.

Effect of Treaties upon Third Parties.

International Law — General and Universal — Binding Force of Treaties not Assented to by the State Concerned — Brussels Convention of 1910 Relating to Salvage.

Interpretation of Treaties — Presumed Knowledge of Negotiations as to Practice and Opinions of other Contracting Party — Relevance of Treatises upon International Law.

International Law — Sources — Teachings of Publicists as Evidence of the Legal Conviction of States — Treatise of American Writer as Showing the View of the American Government.

International Law — Sources — Natural Law.

International Law — Relation to Municipal Law — Municipal Law Considered by International Courts.

Effect of Treaties on Third Parties — Pacta in Favorem Tertii.

International Law — Relation to Municipal Law — Treaties — Necessity of Municipal Legislation — Effect on Third Parties — Effect on Private Individuals.

Territories under Joint or International Government — The Saar — Nationality of Inhabitants.

Operation and Enforcement of Treaties — Alleged Inconsistency of Municipal Laws with Treaty Obligations.

International Law — Relation to Municipal Law — Law Passed in Execution of a Treaty — Alleged Inconsistency — Obligation on Municipal Court to apply the Municipal Law — Treaty of Versailles as Part of Belgian Municipal Law.

Territories under Joint or International Government — The Rhineland Commission — Binding Force of the Decrees of the Rhineland Commission.

Occupation of Foreign Territory in Time of Peace — Legislative Function of the Occupying Authorities.

Necessity of Municipal Legislation — The Rhineland Agreement as Part of German Municipal Law — Doctrine of Transformation.

International Law — Relation to Municipal Law — The Doctrine of Transformation — Decrees of the Occupant in Time of Peace — The Rhineland Agreement of 1919 — Validity of German Law.

Recognition of States — Modes of Recognition — Recognition of Czechoslovakia — Whether effected by the Peace Treaties.

Establishment of New State — Time of Coming into Existence of the Czechoslovak State — Effect of the Treaties of Peace — Recognition — How far affected by Treaties.

Establishment of New State — Establishment of Territorial Sovereignty by Establishment of Civil Administration — Czechoslovak Territory — Establishment of Czechoslovak Territorial Sovereignty in Slovakia and Subcarpathian Russia.1

Re-establishment of States — Establishment of Territorial Sovereignty — Occupation by Polish Troops of Parts of Russian Territory — Prosecution for Treason — Beginning of the Duty of Allegiance.

Jurisdiction — Immunity of States from Suit — States in their Sovereign and Private Capacities — Article 161 of the Treaty of Neuilly.

Distinction between a State's Exercise of Rights of Sovereignty and Contracting in its Private Capacity — The State as a “National” — Article 304 (b) of the Treaty of Versailles — Greek Government as Plaintiff.

States in their Sovereign and in their Private Capacity — Article 231 of the Treaty of Trianon.

Capitulations — Effect of on Rights of Foreign Subjects — Limitations of State Sovereignty.

Termination of Treaties — Clausula Rebus Sic Stantibus — Abolition of Turkish Suzerainty over Egypt.

State Sovereignty — Acts of Sovereignty and Transactions of a Private Character — Abolition of Turkish Suzerainty over Egypt — Effect on Loans of Suzerain Guaranteed by Egypt — Acts of State — Jurisdiction of the Mixed Courts — Rights of Foreign Subjects under the Capitulations.

States when Engaged in Trade — Equality of Treatment — Reciprocity.

Continuity of States — Change of Governments — Succession in Rights — Property Situated Abroad.

Recognition of Acts of Foreign States and Governments — Effects of Validity of Decrees of Recognised Governments — Succession of Governments — Ownership of Property Situated Abroad.

Recognition of Acts of Foreign States and Governments — Effect of Legislation on Property situated outside Jurisdiction — Limits of Duty of One State to Respect and Recognise the Laws of Another State — Foreign Confiscatory Law contrary to Fundamental Principles of French Law.

Recognition of Acts of Foreign States and Governments — Recognition de jure — Effect of Validity of Laws Passed by the Recognised Government — Questions of Personal Status — Marriage and Divorce Legislation of the Soviet Government.

Military Occupation of Enemy Territory — Occupation after the Armistice — Recognition of Acts of Occupying Power — British Occupation of Constantinople after the World War.

Recognition of Acts of Foreign States and Governments — Forces of Foreign State in Occupation of Foreign Territory — British Forces in Constantinople after the World War — Authoritative Acts Committed by them — Seizure of Goods at the Command of the Occupying Military Authority — Jurisdiction of Foreign Court in Regard to Acts of State of a Recognised Power in Occupied Territory.