Treaties — Forms of — Concessionary Contract between Government and Company — Assimilation to Treaty.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Various Rules of — Relevance of Texts in pari materiae — Presumption against Superfluity of Terms Used — Interpretation in Accordance with Accompanying Circumstances — Relevance of Interpretation Relied upon before National Legislature.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Preparatory Work — Relevance of Interpretation Relied upon Before National Legislature.

International Court of Justice — Contentious Procedure — Jurisdiction — Declaration under Optional Clause of Article 36 of the Statute — Reservations — Interpretation of — Reservation of Treaties Posterior to Ratification of this Declaration — Meaning of — Interpretation by reference to Similar Declarations — Interpretation in Accordance with Presumption against Superfluity of Terms Used — Interpretation in the Light of Historic Circumstances Accompanying the Declaration — Relevance of Interpretation Adduced before National Legislature — Relevance of Most-Favoured-Nation Clause in Relation to Operation of Declaration under Optional Clause — Concessionary Contract between Government and Company — Whether Partaking of the Nature of a Treaty — Forum prorogatum — Provisional Measures of Protection.