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" Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title. The arbitrators may deem exclusive political control of a district, as well as actual settlement thereof, sufficient to constitute adverse holding or to make title... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 128
1900
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The Acquisition and Government of Backward Territory in International Law ...

Sir Mark Frank Lindley - Acquisition of territory - 1926 - 424 pages
...States and Great Britain were then concerned was submitted to arbitration, Bee Ch. it was agreed that ' Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title.' The part of South America in question had, however, been occupied in a halfhearted and not particularly...
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The Essentials of International Public Law and Organization

Amos Shartle Hershey - International law - 1927 - 820 pages
...Britain and Venezuela laid down the following rule (among others) for the conduct of the arbitrators: "Adverse holding or prescription during a period of...adverse holding or to make title by prescription." I Moore, Digest, § 88, p. 297. For other instances of international practice, see Ralston, in 4 AJ...
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The Oxford History of the United States, 1783-1917, Volume 2

Samuel Eliot Morison - United States - 1927 - 562 pages
...November 1896) submitting the boundary question to an arbitral tribunal, to be governed by the rule that ' adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title '.1 Thus Cleveland and Olney secured their principle that the whole territory in dispute should be...
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Adventures in American Diplomacy: 1896-1906 (from Unpublished Documents)

Alfred Lewis Pinneo Dennis - United States - 1928 - 560 pages
...law not inconsistent therewith as the arbitrators shall determine to be applicable to the case. Rules (a) Adverse holding or prescription during a period...adverse holding or to make title by prescription. (b) The arbitrators may recognize and give effect to rights and claims resting on any other ground...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 62

Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1901 - 992 pages
...prescription during a period of fifty years should make a good title, and that the arbitrators might deem exclusive political control of a district, as well as actual settlement, sufficient to constitute adverse holding or to make title by prescription. On the 10th of November,...
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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States

United States. Department of State - United States - 1897 - 1060 pages
...not inconsistent therewith as the arbitrators shall determine to be applicable to the case. BULBS. (a) Adverse holding or prescription during a period...adverse holding or to make title by prescription. may deem to be applicable to the case and which are not in contravention of the foregoing rule. (c)...
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International Law in Historical Perspective, Volume 3

J. H. W. Verzijl - Law - 1970 - 664 pages
...(Martens, NRG2, XXVIII, 328), on the contrary, provided for arbitral proceedings on the following basis: "Adverse holding or prescription during a period of...adverse holding or to make title by prescription". I personally attribute no validity to these latter provisions as evidence of the recognition of the...
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International Law: Being the Collected Papers of Hersch Lauterpacht, Volume 2

Hersch Lauterpacht - International law - 1970 - 624 pages
...1872, LXDC, pp. 653 et seq. [C. 545]. * The letter is also printed in Westlake, Papers, pp. 414-16. holding or prescription during a period of fifty years...adverse holding or to make title by prescription. ' The effect of that provision was to circumscribe at the outset the powers of the Tribunal and to...
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International Law: Being the Collected Papers of Hersch Lauterpacht, Volume 1

Hersch Lauterpacht - International law - 1970 - 578 pages
...agreement, as in the case of the British Guiana Arbitration in 1897, where the parties agreed that 'adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make good title ' and that ' the arbitrators may deem exclusive political control of a district, as well...
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The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Volume 6

American periodicals - 1896 - 1048 pages
...daring a period of fiftv years shall make a good title. The arbitrators may deem exclusive politicaf control of a district as well as actual settlement thereof sufficient to constitute advert holding, or to make title by prescription. (r.) In determining the boundary line, if territory...
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