...communities which constitute the political bodies known as Territories and the District of Columbia. It is a general principle of construction with respect to treaties that they shall be liberally coj^Hed, so as to carry out the apparent intention -of the JpJ^es to secure equality and reciprocity...

...existing government of Cuba stands, and is one source from which it derives authority. Treaties should be liberally construed, so as to carry out the apparent intention of the parties. (De Geofroy /•. Riggs. 133 US, 258.) It must have been well known to the distinguished diplomats...

...exercising legislative power, and includes territories and the District of Columbia. Treaties should be liberally construed so as to carry out the apparent...parties to secure equality and reciprocity between them. Geofroy v. Riggs, 133 US 258. 21. Treaties are supreme law. — A treaty is the supreme law of the...

...existing government of Cuba stands, and is one source from which it derives authority. Treaties should be liberally construed, so as to carry out the apparent intention of the parties. (Do Geofroy v. Riggs, 133 US, 258.) It must have been well known to the distinguished diplomats and...

...existing government of Cuba stands, and is one source from which it derives authority. Treaties should be liberally construed, so as to carry out the apparent intention of the parties. (De Geofroy v. Riggs, 133 US, 258.) It must have been well known to the distinguished diplomats and...

...inequality. Mr. Livingston, Sec. of State, to Baron Lederer, Nov. 5, 1832, MS. Notes to For. Legs., V. 03. "It is a general principle of construction with respect...independent nations, in their construction words are to lie taken in their ordinary meaning, as understood in the public law of nations, and not in any artificial...

...alliance or confederation.'"102 The construction of treaties should be liberal so as to effectuate the apparent intention of the parties to secure equality and reciprocity between them.103 § 234. Other decisions of supreme court of the United States.— The ninth article of the...

...court, in interpreting treaties, has more than once declared that these should, whenever possible, be liberally construed, so as to carry out the apparent...parties to secure equality and reciprocity between them. So interpreting the treaty, the court held that the District of Columbia was one of the ' ' States...

...Supreme Court of the United States. In the case of De Geof roy v. Riggs, in 1890, the court said : "It is a general principle of construction with respect...apparent intention of the parties to secure equality between them. As they are contracts between independent nations, in their construction words are to...

...by the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Justice Field in Geofroy v. Riggs (133 US, 271) says: It is a general principle of construction with respect...liberally construed, so as to carry out the apparent lntention of the parties to secure equality and reciprocity between them. As they are contracts between...