...Plenipotentiary, in common with those of the other Powers, signed a Declaration affirming it to be " an essential principle of the law of nations that...liberate itself from the engagements of a Treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the Contracting Parties by means of...

...neutralization of the Black Sea. " This unanimity furnishes n striking proof that the Powers recognize that it is an essential principle of the law of nations that none of them can liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof,...

...follows — " The Plenipotentiaries [of the different Powers] recognize that it is an essential principio of the Law of Nations that no Power can liberate itself from the engagements of a Treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the Contracting Powers, by means of...

...the words of the protocol of the day's proceedings, the plenipotentiaries there assembled " recognise that it is an essential principle of the law of nations,...liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting Powers, by means of...

...the words of the protocol of the day's proceedings, the plenipotentiaries there assembled " recognise that it is an essential principle of the law of nations, that no Power can liberate iteelf from the engagements of a treaty, nor»modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent...

...plenipotentiary, in common with those of the other powers, signed a declaration affirming it to be an essential principle of the law of nations that...liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting parties, by means of...

...was abrogated. At the first meeting of the Conference a protocol was agreed to, recording it to be an essential principle of the law of nations that...Treaty without the consent of the other contracting parties. This was certainly a very important point to establish after the arrogant and most unwarrantable...

...disposed of at the London Conference of 1871 with regard to a similar claim by Russia, which declared that " it is an essential principle of the Law of Nations that no Power can liberate itself from the engagement of a treaty or nullify the regulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting...

...neutralization of the Black Sea. " This unanimity furnishes a striking proof that the Powers recognize that it is an essential principle of the law of nations that none of them can liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof,...

...more recent date than that of Paris— he meant the conference of 1871, which was to this effect : " That it is an essential principle of the law of nations...liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, uuless with the consent of the contracting powers by means of...