State Succession — Respect of Private Rights — Private Property of Former Ruler.

State Succession — Succession into Rights — Act of State — Respect of Private Rights — Private Property of the Sultan Abdul Hamid — Transfer of Property to Ottoman State by Imperial Decree (Irade) — Article 60 of the Treaty of Lausanne, 1923

Treaties — Interpretation of — Preparatory Work — Convention on the Transport of Goods by Rail — Presumption against Restrictions of Sovereignty.

Protectorates — Status of — German Protectorate of South-West Africa.

Mandate — Rights and Obligations of Mandatory — Mandates and State Succession — German Protectorate of South-West Africa.

State Succession — Continuity of Laws — Continuity of Juristic Personality of Territories.

State Succession — Liability for Obligations — Continuation of the Juristic Personality of Detached Territories — Continuity of Laws — Mandates and State Succession — Continuity of States — Legal Position of Mandatory Power — Liability for Loans Charged on Territory Subjected to Mandate — Sovereignty in Territory Subjected to Mandate — Mandated Territory as Compared with Conquered or Ceded Territory — Effect of Military Occupation on Sovereignty — Mandated Territory of South-West Africa — Status of Former German Protectorate — Treaty of Versailles, Articles 119 and 22

State Succession — Respect of Private Rights — Whether Implying the Preservation of the Former Level of Profit and of Economic Advantages — Articles 4 and 5 of the Germano-Polish Convention of May 15, 1922, concerning Upper Silesia (Geneva Convention)

State Succession — Respect of Private Rights — Protection of “Vested” Rights — Article 4 of the Germano-Polish Convention of May 15, 1922, concerning Upper Silesia (so-called Geneva Convention) — The Right to carry on an Established Business — Whether a Protected Right — Advocate’s or Notary’s Practice — Whether to be Protected as an Established Business

State Succession — In the Matter of Administration — Taking Over of Officials

Cession — Effects of — Continuation of Laws.

State Succession — Continuation of Laws — Effects of Cession — Analogy of International Law for the Purposes of Internal Public Law — Cession by a State to the Federal Government

State Succession — Continuation of Laws — Separation of Territory — Church in Poland — Advowson attached to Manor in Germany — Whether Patronage Continues

State Succession — Continuation of Laws — The Law of the Successor State — Whether Applicable to Crimes Committed in Annexed Territory

State Succession — Continuation of Laws — The Law of Successor State — Criminal Proceedings — Crimes Committed in Abyssinia prior to Annexation — Prosecution by Italian Authorities

Holy See — Legal Status of Prior to Lateran Treaties — Corporations Created by the Holy See

Cession — Incomplete Cession — Disguised Cession.

Territory — In General — Restriction of Territorial Sovereignty — Cession — Incomplete Cession — Residuary Sovereignty — Position of Crete and Samos in Relation to Turkey — Disguised Cessions.

Territory — In General — Jurisdiction over Territory in Dispute.

Boundaries — Disputed Boundaries — De facto Jurisdiction over Territory in Dispute.

Territory — Organisation of — Occupation — De facto Jurisdiction over Territory in Dispute.

Territory — Sovereignty over the Air — Air Navigation Convention of 1919 — Aeroplanes Owned by French Subjects but Registered in a State not a Party to the Convention — Flight Over French Territory.

Territory — Boundaries — Distinction between Demarcation and Establishment of Frontiers — Provisional Frontier.

Territory — Boundaries — Netherlands Coal-mine under German Territory — Boundary Treaty between the Netherlands and Prussia, of Aachen, 1816.

Boundaries — Water Boundaries — The thalweg — Equal Division of Boundary Waters where Rights of Navigation are not at Issue.

International Waterways — The Régime of the Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt — Final Act of the Congress of Vienna of June 9, 1815, Articles 108–117, and Annexe 16 (Navigation on the Rhine and on the Rivers Neckar, Main, Moselle, Meuse and Scheldt) — Act of Mayence of March 31, 1831 — Act of Mannheim of October 17, 1868 — Dutch-Belgian Treaty of April 19, 1839, Article 9 — Freedom of Passage through eaux intermédiaries between the Rhine and the Scheldt — Dutch Law of 1933 regarding Distribution of Freight Traffic — Its Consistency with Existing Treaties — Inland and International Navigation on International Waterways — Embouchures of the Rhine — Rhine Harbours.

Bays — Territoriality of — Base Line of Territorial Waters.

Territorial Waters — Limits of — Base Line — Territoriality of Bays.

Federal States — Right of State Members of Federal States to Fix the Limit of Territorial Waters.

Boundaries — In General — Right of Member State of Federal State to Fix the Limits of Territorial Waters.

Territorial Waters — Jurisdiction in — Breadth of the Maritime Belt — Nine-Mile Limit.