States as international persons — Composite and dependent States and territories — Dependent States — Colonies — Belgian Congo — Whether sharing jurisdictional immunity of Belgian State — Whether Belgian legislation providing for separate legal personality of Belgian Congo should be applied — The law of France.

State territory — In general — Acquisition of territorial sovereignty — Cession — Cession of Congo to Belgium in 1907 — Belgian legislation providing for separate legal personality of Belgian Congo — Whether Belgian Congo shared jurisdictional immunities of Belgian State — The law of France.

Jurisdiction — Territorial — Exemptions from and restrictions upon — Foreign States — Colonies — Belgian Congo — Whether sharing jurisdictional immunity of Belgian State — Whether Belgian legislation providing for separate legal personality of Belgian Congo must be applied — The law of France.

Jurisdiction — Territorial — Exemptions from and restrictions upon — Foreign States — Whether immunity of foreign States absolute — Whether immunity depends on form of act performed or on purpose of act — The law of France.

Jurisdiction — Territorial — Exemptions from and restrictions upon — Foreign States — Foreign State as guarantor of obligations undertaken by foreign municipality — Issue of loan by foreign municipality — Default of foreign municipality — Whether foreign Government subject to jurisdiction of local courts under guarantee — The law of France.

Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial — Exemptions from and restrictions upon — Foreign States — Acts jure imperii and jure gestionis — Contracts for construction of buildings to house American officials in France — Dispute between French contractor and United States Foreign Buildings Operation Department — Whether French courts competent — The law of France.

Damages — Measure of — Indirect damages and damages for loss of profits — Heads of damage recoverable for cancellation of concession — Investment under U.S. Investment Guaranty Program Whether future profits from operation of concession to run oil refinery recoverable — Concession cancelled before refinery constructed.

State responsibility — Kinds of — For revocation of concessionary contracts — Unilateral annulment of concession — Grant of substantially similar concession by Government to third party — Applicability of local remedies rule — Investment guaranteed under United States Investment Guaranty Program — Heads of damage recoverable under Contract of Guaranty — Loss of future profits — Sums expended on services contributing to investment project — Salary of sole stockholder.

State responsibility — Claims — Global indemnity — Nationalization of French “property, rights and interests” in Yugoslavia — Whether comprising incorporeal assets — The law of France.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Agencies of interpretation — Minister for Foreign Affairs — Binding force — Whether interpretation of treaty for purposes of one case binding in respect of later similar case — The law of France.

State responsibility — Claims — Miscellaneous — Global indemnity — Nationalization of French property in Roumania — Franco-Roumanian Agreement, 1959 — Whether comprising losses due to monetary reforms — Interpretation by Minister for Foreign Affairs — Whether binding on Commission distributing indemnity — Whether binding on Conseil d'État — The law of France.

The individual in international law — Human rights and freedoms — Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 — European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950 — Presumption of innocence — The law of Mauritius.

International law — Relation to municipal law — Which prevails in case of conflict — The law of Mauritius.

The individual in international law — Human rights and freedoms — Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 — European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950 — Retrospective criminal legislation — Effect of conflict between international law and municipal law — The law of Mauritius.

The individual in international law — Nationality — Statelessness — Whether refugee or stateless person an alien for purposes of internal law — The law of France.

The individual in international law — Nationality — Of married women — Enemy national marrying French national during war — French nationality not acquired by marriage — Whether remaining German national — Whether loss of German nationality under German law to be recognized in France — The law of France.

The individual in international law — Nationality — Of corporations — Hague Convention on Civil Procedure, 1954 (Article 17) — Meaning of term ‘nationals’ of Contracting States — Whether including corporation with corporate seat in territory of Contracting State — The law of France.

Aliens — Admission of — Alien entering on non-immigrant visa and seeking permanent admission — Whether alien becomes immigrant and entitled to have his admissibility determined or whether he may be deported immediately — The law of Canada.

The individual in international law — Aliens — Admission of — Previous expulsion — Whether decision on admission must be made according to reglations regarding expulsion — The law of France.

The individual in international law — Aliens — Position of — Treatment by and responsibilities of receiving State — Refugees — Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees, 1951 (Article 7 (2)) — Exemption from legislative recipriocity (Article 13) — Rights in movable and immovable property — Interpretation — Spanish refugees in France — Whether entitled to benefit of legislation on farming leases — Whether entitled only to benefit of rights of Spanish nationals under Franco-Spanish Consular Convention — The law of France.

The individual in international law — Aliens — Position of — Treatment by and responsibilities of receiving State — Refugees — Geneva Convention on Status of Refugees, 1951 (Article 16) — National treatment — Security for costs — French Civil Code (Article 16) — Whether right of free access to courts and national treatment implies right to claim security for costs — The law of France.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Agencies of interpretation — Minister for Foreign Affairs — Franco — Spanish Treaty of Establishment, 1862 — “National treatment” — Compatability of condition for exercise of rights with Treaty — Whether opinion of Minister for Foreign Affairs conclusive — The law of France.

The individual in international law — Aliens — Position of — Treatment by and responsibilities of the receiving State — Right to carry on commercial occupation in France — Franco-Italian Treaties of 17 May 1946 and 23 August 1951 — Most-favoured-nation clause — Franco-Spanish Convention of 7 January 1862 — “National treatment” — Interpretation by Minister for Foreign Affairs — Distinction between restriction on rights conferred by treaty and imposition of conditions for their exercise — Whether requirement that aliens be in possession of commercial identity card compatible with national treatment — The law of France.

The individual in international law — Aliens — Position of — Treatment by and responsibilities of the receiving State — Refugees — Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 (Article 31 (1)) — Clandestine entry by refugee into receiving State — Whether liable to prosecution — The law of France.

International law — Relation to municipal law — Supremacy of treaty law over general international law — Whether there is a rule of international law exempting aliens from exceptional war charges — Whether such charges amount to expropriation — Effect of incorporation of general rules of international law into municipal law — Basic Law of Federal Republic of Germany — German-Swiss Agreement on Equalization of Burdens, 1952 — Settlement Convention, 1954 — The law of Germany.

Aliens — Position of — Respect for property — Expropriation — Levies on gains from depreciation of currency — Proceeds used partially for war expenses — Whether aliens exempt from such levies — Whether they constitute expropriation — German-Swiss Agreement on Equalisation of Burdens, 1952 — Most-favoured-nation clause — Convention on Settlement of Matters Arising out of the War and the Occupation, 1954 — Exemption of United Nations nationals from exceptional levies — Basic Law of the Federal Republic — The law of Germany.

Aliens — Expulsion of — Procedure of expulsion — Jurisdiction of Special Inquiry Officer — Foreign crew member remaining in Canada after departure of ship — Application for immigrant status — Whether application deprived Special Inquiry Officer of jurisdiction to hold inquiry concerning deportation — The law of Canada.