Treaties — Effect in Municipal Law — Interpretation of Orders in Council putting Treaty into Effect — Reference to Treaty itself — Subsequent Treaties with Third Parties Irrelevant and res inter alios acta — Strict Interpretation in Favour of Party Obliged.

Treaties — Execution of — Treaties Providing for Future Detailed Regulation of their Subject-Matter — Legal Position in the Absence of Such Detailed Regulation.

Treaties — Application of — Whether Self-Executing — Application in Municipal Law of International Labour Conventions — Geneva Convention of June 5, 1925, on Equality of Treatment for National and Foreign Workers as Regards Workmen’s Compensation for Accidents — Reciprocity — Whether Dependent on the Conclusion of Special Agreements.

Treaties — Execution of — Cases in which the Performance of the Treaty by the Other Party is Doubtful — The Function of Courts as Distinguished from that of the Political Departments.

Treaties — Enforcement of — Agencies of Interpretation — Competence of Courts to Enquire into Political Questions Arising out of Conventions — Swiss Courts — Protectorates.

Treaties — Operation of — Treaties Passed by Parliament and Published, but not Ratified — International Law and Domestic Law — Nature of Ratification — International Application of Conventions.

Treaties — Operation and Enforcement of — Necessity of Promulgation — Promulgation of Cessation of Operation of Treaties — Retroactive Effect — Polish Law.

Treaties — Operation of — Relation to Municipal Law — Indirect Repeal of Municipal Law by Subsequent Treaty.

Operation of Treaties — Treaty of Paris of April 24, 1926, concerning Motor-Car Traffic — Necessity of Municipal Legislation — Relation of Treaty to Municipal Law — Whether Directly Applicable by Courts.

Treaties — Operation of — Municipal Statutes Inconsistent with Treaties.

Treaties — Effect on Third Parties — Effect on Russia of the Minorities Treaty of 1919 — Nationality — Acquisition and Loss of — Effect as against Third States — Interpretation of Treaties — Filling of Gaps by Construction — Russo-Polish Peace Treaty of March 15, 1921.

Abrogation of Treaties as the Result of Changes in Circumstances — Interpretation by Reference to the Context — Two Paragraphs of One Article — Treaties Imposing Burdens upon Third States — Treaties in Favour of Third Parties — Partial Impossibility of Execution of Treaties — Clauses of the Arbitration Agreement — Impossibility of Applying One of the Clauses — Whether Invalidating the Whole Agreement — Re-Adaptation of Treaties to New Conditions — Opinion, as Distinguished from Judgment, of the Permanent Court of International Justice — Oral Declarations in the Course of Judicial Proceedings — Binding Force — Execution of the Judgment.

Treaties — Termination of — Effect of Treaties after Termination — Jurisdiction over Foreigners in Egypt — Customs Statute — Lapse of Commercial Conventions — Recognition of Customs Statute by Foreign Powers.

Treaties — Agencies of Interpretation — Authority Competent to Interpret Treaties in connection with Actions concerning Private Rights — Distinction between Actions Involving the Public Interest and Actions Involving Private Rights — Franco-Spanish Convention of January 7, 1862 — Diplomatic and Legislative Reciprocity — French Law of June 30, 1926, on Commercial Property.

Interpretation of Treaties — Treaties and Limitations of Sovereignty — The Preamble — Meaning of “Embargo” — Contemporaneous Interpretation — Use of Dictionaries — Reference to Other Treaties — Bilingual Treaties — Limits of the Duty of Non-Interference with Ships and with the Freedom of Commercial Transactions — Restrictive Interpretation of Treaty Provisions of an Exceptional Nature — Necessity of an Actual Decision as a Basis for a Claim for Compensation — Insufficiency of Oral Ruling — Conditions of a Valid Renunciation of Rights — The Law Applicable — Treaties as Exclusive Sources of Arbitral Decision.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Intention of the Parties — Interpretation contra proferentem.

Treaties — Bilingual — Interpretation of — Interpretation of a Decision of the Council of the League, given in French, under Article 312 of the Treaty of Versailles — Reference Back to National Law.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Historical Antecedents of the Treaty — Intention of the Authors of the Treaty Unexpressed in its Provisions — Special Rights and Privileges in Foreign Territory — Necessity of Clear Provisions to that Effect — Article 104 of the Treaty of Versailles — Poland and Danzig.

Treaties — Interpreation of — Preparatory Work.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Preparatory Work