Lighthouses Arbitration between France and Greece

Abstract

State Responsibility — For Interference with Concessionary Contracts — Expenditure on Contract Rendered Abortive by Insistence on Unacceptable Conditions — Sharing of Responsibility.

State Responsibility — For Interference with Concessionary Contracts — Derogation from Lighthouses Concession — Grant of Exemption from Dues to Steamship Company.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Principles and Rules of — Interpretation by Reference to “Bad Drafting” — Article 59 of Statute of Permanent Court of International Justice

Treaties — Interpretation of — Consideration of Preparatory Work — Article 59 of Statute of Permanent Court of International Justice

Treaties — Interpretation of — Miscellaneous — Binding Force of Previous Judgment in Lis Concerning Interpretation of Treaty

Arbitration — Law Applied by Arbitral Tribunals — Previous Decisions of Permanent Court of International Justice Regarded as Res judicata — Article 59 of Statute of the Court — Article 84 of Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, 1907 — Relevance of Distinct Nature of Lis — Relevance of Differing Basis of Previous Judgment — Relevance of Terms of Compromis Leading to Previous Judgment.

Permanent Court of International Justice — Decisions of, Regarded as Res Judicata — Article 59 of Statute of the Court — Relevance of Distinct Nature of Lis — Relevance of Differing Basis of Previous Judgment — Relevance of Terms of Compromis Leading to Previous Judgment.

State Succession — Succession with Regard to Contractual Obligations and Concessions — Responsibility for Expenditure on Contract Rendered Abortive by Act of Predecessor — Contributory Negligence of Claimant — Relevance of Question Whether Debt Admitted, Liquidated or Easily Ascertainable — Responsibility for Breach by Predecessor of Concession Contract — Relevance of Privity of Successor State — Merger of Crete and Greece — Critical Date — General Question of Transmission of Responsibility on Territorial Change — Arbitration — Previous Decisions of Permanent Court of International Justice Regarded as Res judicata — Article 59 of Statute of the Court — Article 84 of Hague Convention for Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, 1907 — Relevance of Distinct Nature of Lis — Relevance of Differing Basis of Previous Judgment — Relevance of Terms of Compromis Leading to Previous Judgment