The Hague Convention Concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Land Warfare

1908 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio S. de Bustamante

Hugo Grotius says, at the close of Chapter XVII, Book III, of his work De jure belli ac pacis, that it may be advantageous (for a neutral) to make a convention with each of the belligerents so that it may be allowed to abstain from the war with the consent of both sides. This opinion of the father of the law of nations might be deemed to be well reasoned in 1625, but it reads very strangely in 1908.

Author(s):  
Ruth Gaffney-Rhys

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter focuses on international relocation and child abduction. The first question is an essay question that considers the law relating to international relocation, ie how the English courts have dealt with applications to relocate out of the jurisdiction (eg Payne v Payne). The second is a problem question that requires the application of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects on International Child Abduction 1980 and the EU Regulations (BIIR), but also considers the law that applies if a child is taken to England and Wales from a country that has not ratified the Hague Convention.


2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-605
Author(s):  
Tomislav Karlović

Considering the main characteristics of fiducia in Roman law, as well as its functions and place within the real property law and the law of obligations, two features that are also prominent in the definition of anglosaxon trust stand out. These are the fiduciary nature of the relationship between the interested parties, as fides (trust) formed the initial basis of both institutes in the period before they were legally recognized, and the transfer of ownership made for specific purpose, different from the regular enjoyment of the object by the owner. However, there is a significant difference between the two (fiducia and trust) becuase of the duality between common law and equity in English legal system. While the mutual interests of the parties to fiducia in Roman law were protected only by personal actions (actiones in personam), parties’ proprietary interests in English trust were (and still are) recognized with the parallel existence of legal and equitable title. In contemporary Croatian law of real property the closest thing to the division of titles exists with regard to the conditionally transferred ownership as regulated in Art. 34 of Ownership and Other Proprietary Rights Act, entaling the division on prior and posterior ownership, both of which can be entered into Land registry and other registries. In the article it is analysed how this division and the following registration of both titles could allow for the effects to be given to trusts, in case it would be pondered on the benefits of accession of Croatia to the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition. Accordingly, after the exposition of Croatian law, it is given a short overview of English trust with emphasis on trusts of land and, subsequently, of the rules of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition. In the conclusion it is argued that perceived incompatibility of trust with civilian legal system can be overcome in Croatia with the help of extant legal rules regarding conditionally transferred ownership. Also, this incompatibility has already been refuted in several European continental countries from which examples lessons should be studied and learned, what would be the next step in the deliberations on the accession to the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition.


Author(s):  
von Segesser Georg

This chapter examines the effect of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition (Hague Trust Convention) on the law applicable to the arbitration of trust disputes. It also considers the extent to which arbitrators can apply the conflict of laws rules of the convention in cases where the parties have not agreed that these rules should govern the issues in dispute. The chapter is organized as follows. Section II addresses the selection of the applicable substantive law by arbitral tribunals in cases where the parties have not agreed on the applicable law. Sections III and IV cover international conventions and, in particular the Hague Trust Convention, as sources for the selection of the applicable law. Section V deals with the validity and effect of arbitration agreements while Section VI considers the effects of a choice of-law-clause and the binding effect of such a clause for the arbitral proceedings. Section VII addresses the effect of specific conflict of laws rules of the Hague Trust Convention on the law applicable to the merits in international trust arbitration disputes.


2005 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeline Chong

There is a dearth of authority and in-depth discussion concerning what the choice of law rules are for claims involving the assertion that property is held on a resulting or constructive trust. It is usually thought that the choice of law rules set out by the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition (hereafter the ‘Hague Trusts Convention’), as enacted into English law by the Recognition of Trusts Act 1987, apply. However, it is arguable that this is not so for some types of resulting and constructive trusts, namely those governed by a foreign law; or, at the very least, that some doubt exists as to whether the Hague choice of lawrules apply to all resulting and constructive trusts. It is therefore important that the common law choice of law rules for such trusts is clearly elucidated. Unfortunately, this is an area of the law that is distinctly undeveloped. The aim of this article is to consider what are or should be the common law choice of law rules for resulting and constructive trusts.


2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (9) ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Maja Stanivuković

This paper outlines the principles and general provisions of the Hague Convention on the Child Abduction, and further outlines some defects of the Law on Matrimonial and Family Relations, which, from the perspective of the applicant, hinder the efficient application of its provisions, in case that the child has been removed from our country. Those defects relate firstly to the fact that the issue of when the custody rights have been violated by removing the child to a foreign country, is regulated rather vaguely, and secondly, to the fact that there are no provisions on jurisdiction of public authorities to issue a certificate to the effect that the removal was unlawful according to domestic law. The amendments to the law are proposed in the paper, which would facilitate the application of the Hague Convention on the Child Abduction in similar cases.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1205-1223
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Novikova

The research is relevant due to development of transboundary private legal relations, including agency, recourse to party autonomy and the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Agency (the Hague Convention of 1978) potential of practical application. The goal is to analyze the party autonomy standards stipulated by the Hague Convention of 1978, to assess the place of the indicated norms within the system of international norms regarding party autonomy and to make conclusions on potential of its practical application. The main specific legal methods are historical and comparative. Due to insufficient scientific elaboration on the matter the main materials were the international treaty norms, including different language versions and translations, and profound travaux préparatoires enabling to clear up the contents of the norms. The main results include the following conclusions. Firstly, in spite of standpoint widespread in Russian jurisprudence the Hague Convention of 1978 acknowledges party autonomy for two legal relations and stipulates liberal standard for agent and principal relations and strict - for the agents authority in principal and third party relations. Secondly, the Hague Convention of 1978 has the potential of practical application as a part of lex fori of its states parties by court and as a collection of internationally accepted norms by international commercial arbitration. In conclusion the author stresses that it is important for Russian participants of international civil intercourse to have the right perception of the Hague Convention of 1978 norms when choosing a forum for disputes arising out of their international agency agreements.


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