Costa Rica-Panama Arbitration: Argument of Costa Rica Before the Arbitrator, Hon. Edward Douglass White, Chief Justice of the United States, Under the Provisions of the Convention Between the Republic of Costa Rica and the Republic of Panama, Concluded March 17, 1910, Volume 2

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Page 236 - Delcasse, Minister of Foreign Relations of France, to His Excellency Senor Peralta, Minister of Costa Rica in Paris, of November 23, 1900, that this boundary line must be drawn within the confines of the territory in dispute as determined by the Convention of Paris between the Republic of Costa Rica and the Republic of Colombia of January 20, 1886.
Page 213 - ... the Chief Justice of the United States, who will determine, in the capacity of arbitrator, the question : What is the boundary between Costa Rica and Panama under and most in accordance with the correct interpretation and true intention...
Page xv - September 1900, is clear and indisputable in the region of the Pacific from Punta Burica to a point beyond Cerro Pando on the Central Cordillera near the ninth degree of north latitude, have not been able to reach an agreement in respect to the interpretation which ought to be given to the arbitral award as to the rest of the boundary line...
Page 401 - The fact, if it be one, that de jure the estate is in Panama does not matter in the least; sovereignty is pure fact. The fact has been recognized by the United States, and by the implications of the bill is assented to by Panama.
Page 32 - As between the belligerent powers themselves, it is held that the conclusion of peace legalizes the state of possession existing at the moment, unless special stipulations to the contrary are contained in the treaty. This is called the principle of uti possidetis, and it is of wide and far-reaching application. Cities, districts, and provinces held in belligerent occupation by an enemy, fall to him by the title of conquest, when it is not expressly stated that they are to be evacuated. Captures from...
Page 543 - Greytown,) and command the mouth of the river. In my opinion, it is quite immaterial where the royal geographers are directed to draw the line, as I am satisfied the whole claim is without just foundation. All the good maps of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, French, Spanish, Dutch, and English, carry Honduras from coast to coast, Nicaragua the same, and fix the southern terminus of the Mosquito shore at or near where I have indicated.
Page 544 - Nicaragua, Honduras, or Costa Rica until more full and statistical information should have been communicated by him to the Department in regard to those States than that which it possesses. The States of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Honduras are the only Central American States whose consent or cooperation would in any event be necessary for the construction of the ship canal contemplated between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans by the way of Lake Nicaragua. In pursuance of the sixth article of the...
Page 11 - Republic remains subject to the jurisdictional limitations stipulated or which may be stipulated in public treaties concluded with the United States of North America for the construction, maintenance or sanitation of any means of interoceanic transit. [| The boundaries with the Republic of Colombia shall be determined by public treaties.
Page 541 - Republics engaged to respect their limits based upon the uti possidetis of 1810. Great Britain also claims that coast in behalf of the pretended King of the Mosquitos, and Nicaragua claims it as heir to the late confederation of Central America. With the conflicting claims of New Granada and Nicaragua we have no concern, and, indeed, there is reason to believe that they will be amicably adjusted. We entertain no doubt, however, that the title of Spain to the Mosquito shore was just, and that her...
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