Nationality: Responsibility of States; Territorial Waters. Drafts of Conventions Prepared in Anticipation of the First Conference on the Codification of International Law, The Hague, 1930

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Harvard Law School, 1929 - Aliens - 399 pages

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Page 278 - ... after either of the contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same, each of the contracting parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other at the end of the said term of ten years.
Page 63 - ... in default of which declaration they shall be held to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.
Page 44 - An alien to whom a certificate of naturalization is granted shall in the United Kingdom be entitled to all political and other rights, powers, and privileges and be subject to all obligations to which a natural-born British subject...
Page 220 - The Court shall be open to the Members of the League and also to States mentioned in the Annex to the Covenant...
Page 267 - In case of bays the three marine miles are to be measured from a straight line drawn across the body of water at the place where it ceases to have the configuration and characteristics of a bay. At all other places the three marine miles are to be measured following the sinuosities of the coast.
Page 117 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this Government has freely received emigrants from all nations, and invested them with the rights of citizenship...
Page 140 - The conclusions of a sub-committee of the League of Nations Committee of Experts for the Progressive Codification of International Law (Guerrero,.
Page 67 - States by reason of such marriage or naturalization; but, if eb'gible to citizenship, she may be naturalized upon full and complete compliance with all requirements of the naturalization laws...
Page 305 - ... discipline and all things done on board which affected only the vessel or those belonging to her, and did not involve the peace or dignity of the country, or the tranquillity of the port, should be left by the local government to be dealt with by the authorities of the nation to which the vessel belonged as the laws of that nation or the interests of its commerce should require.
Page 26 - All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.

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