The Case of the Pious Fund of the Californias: United States of America V. Republic of Mexico. Statement and Brief on Behalf of the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 62 pages
 

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Page 47 - ... first, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence conclusive between the same parties...
Page 39 - These constitute the whole of what is submitted to the decision of the arbitrators; and it is upon these points alone that the parties promise to abide by their judgment. If, then, their sentence be confined within these precise bounds, the disputants must acquiesce in it. They can not say that it is manifestly unjust, since it is pronounced on a question which they have themselves rendered doubtful by the discordance of their claims, and which has been referred as such to the decision of the arbitrators....
Page 47 - The plea of res judicata applies, except in special cases, not only to points upon which the Court was actually required by the parties to form an opinion and pronounce a judgment, but to every point which properly belonged to the subject of litigation, and which the parties exercising reasonable diligence, might have brought forward at the time.
Page 47 - I say that where a given matter becomes the subject of litigation in and of adjudication by a court of competent jurisdiction the court requires the parties to that litigation to bring forward their whole case and will not, except under special circumstances, permit the same parties to open the same subject of litigation in respect of matter which might have been brought forward as part of the subject in contest, but which was not brought forward only because they have from negligence, inadvertence...
Page 23 - The award of the said commissioners, or any such three of them as aforesaid, shall in all cases be final and conclusive, both as to the justice, of the claim, and to the amount of the sum to be paid to the claimant...
Page 27 - ... al., et conformément aux dispositions du compromis. Aucune voie de recours ne sera ouverte contre des jugements préliminaires sur la compétence, si ce n'est cumulativement avec le recours contre le jugement arbitral définitif.
Page 33 - La convention d'arbitrage est conclue pour des contestations déjà nées ou pour des contestations éventuelles. Elle peut concerner tout litige ou seulement les litiges d'une catégorie déterminée. Art. 18. La convention d'arbitrage implique l'engagement de se soumettre de bonne foi à la sentence arbitrale.
Page 23 - To say that the Board has authority to decide that a Cause is not within its Jurisdiction, and yet no authority to decide that a case is within its jurisdiction, appears to be a contradiction too glaring to be persisted in. That the Commissioners have...
Page 47 - I say, that where a given matter becomes the subject of litigation in, and of adjudication by, a Court of competent jurisdiction, the Court requires the parties to that litigation to bring forward their whole case, and will not (except under special circumstances) permit the same parties to open the same subject of litigation in respect of matter which might have been brought forward...
Page 35 - La sentence arbitrale est nulle en cas de compromis nul, ou d'excès de pouvoir, ou de corruption prouvée d'un des arbitres ou d'erreur essentielle.

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