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Introductory Comment*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

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Part I: Judicial Assistance
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1939

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Footnotes

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Dr. Sigmund Sichel and Miss Ruth Bacon served as Research Assistants in the preparation of this Draft.

References

page 26 note 1 For the text and translation of the decree see 1 Dareste, Recueil des inscriptions juridiques grecques (1891), p. 158 ff.; see also Hitzig, Altgriechische Staatsverträge über Rechtshilfe (no date), p. 56.

page 26 note 2 Cod.4.20.16.1; id. 20; Dig.22.5.3.3.4; 3 Bethmann-Hollweg, Der römische Civilprozess (1866), p. 276.

page 26 note 3 1 Rolle’s Abridgment (1668), p. 530. Rolle, loc. cit., also records a case from the time of James I in which the court required a foreign judgment to be executed because required by the Law of Nations. “Le Judge del Admiraltie poet exécuter cest judgment per imprisonment del partie, et il ne serra deliver per le common ley; car ceo est per la ley de Nations que le justice dun Nation serra aidant al Justice d’auter Nation, et lun d’exécuter le judgement de l’auter; et le ley d’Engleterre priât notice de cest ley, et le Judge del Admiraltie est le proper Magistrate pur cest purpose, car il solment ad execution del ley Civili deins cest Reime.”

page 27 note 1 9 Martens, Nouveau Recueil Général de Traités, p. 126.

page 27 note 2 Monier, Des Commissions rogatoires en droit international (1909), p. 20. An extradition treaty between France and The Netherlands, November 8, 1844, 7 Martens, N.R.G., p. 571, contained a number of articles on the obtaining of evidence in criminal matters.

page 27 note 3 See 1 Contuzzi, Conventions de la Haye (1904), ch. 1; Documenti diplomatici presentati alla Camera dal Ministro degli Affari Esteri, Atti Parlamentari, Legislatura XVPrima Sessione 1882-88-84-85, (1885).

page 27 note 4 1 Contuzzi, op. cit., p. 8.

page 27 note 5 For the text of this convention see Appendix VI. See also Segonia, El derecho internacional privado y el Congreso Sud-Americano de Montevideo (1889); Diez de Medina, Breves observaciones á los Tratados sancionadas por el Congreso Internacional Sud-Americano (1889).

page 27 note 6 For the text of this convention see Appendix VI.

page 27 note 7 For the text of this convention see Appendix VI. See also Kosters et Bellemans, Les Conventions de la Haye (1921); Contuzzi, op. cit.; Cluzel, La nouvelle Convention de la Haye sur la procédure civile (no date); Meili und Mamelok, Das internationale Privatund Zivilprozessrecht auf Grund der Haager Konventionen (1911); Huismann, La Convention internationale de la Haye du 17 juillet 1905, 11 Rev. de droit int. et de lég. comp., (2ième sér., 1909), p. 320.

page 28 note 1 See 31 Reime Critique de Droit International (1936), p. 195-196.

page 28 note 2 British and Foreign ProcedureReport of the Committee Appointed by the Lord Chancellor (1919), Cmd. 251.

page 28 note 3 League of Nations Treaty Series, p. 448.

page 28 note 4 France, Feb. 2, 1922; Belgium, June 21, 1922; Czechoslovakia, Nov. 11, 1924; Germany, March 20, 1928; Spain, June 27, 1929; Sweden, Aug. 28, 1930; Italy, Dec. 17, 1930; Norway, Jan. 30, 1931; Austria, March 31, 1931; Portugal, July 9, 1931; Poland, Aug. 26, 1931; Turkey, Nov. 28, 1931; Estonia, Dec. 22, 1931; Netherlands, May 31, 1932; Denmark, Nov. 29, 1932; Finland, Aug. 11, 1933; Lithuania, April 24, 1934; Iraq, July 25, 1935; Hungary, Sept. 25, 1935; Greece, Feb. 27, 1936; Yugoslavia, Feb. 27, 1936.

page 28 note 5 U. S. Executive Agreement Series, No. 83; see Appendix VII.

page 29 note 1 24 American Bar Association Journal (1938), p. 769.