Hague Rules

Thus the Hague rules prohibited the bombardment of undefended towns and villages.

The Hague Rules mandatory minimum compensation for loss or destruction of cargo became outdated.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague rules on international disputes.

The standardization of textual requirements was an equally important contribution of the Hague Rules to the certainty of the ocean bill.

That is why I would warn against making any decisions before the International Criminal Court in The Hague rules on this matter.

He referred to the ammunition and military goods declared on "Lusitania's" manifest and said that "vessels of that kind" could be seized and destroyed under the Hague rules.

Visby gave its name to the 1968 Visby Amendments, which were an amendment of the Hague Rules of shipping law, leading to the Hague-Visby Rules.

The adequate feeding of the German population in occupied Germany was an Allied legal obligation under Article 43 of The 1907 Hague Rules of Land Warfare.

All nations pledged to follow the Hague rules on fair treatment of prisoners of war, and in general the POWs had a much higher survival rate than their peers who were not captured.

In 1922, a treaty to limit aerial bombardment of civilians was written and promoted by the United States, called The Hague Rules of Air Warfare, but it was not adopted.

Eventually, the Harter Act helped to shape the text of the 1924 Brussels International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of Lading (The Hague Rules).

The petitioner argued that the Japanese Hague Rules, which would govern the arbitration, allowed them to recover less than COGSA would since it released the shipper from liability for the action of hired stevedores.

Founded in 1897, the CMI was responsible for the drafting of numerous international conventions including the Hague Rules (International Convention on Bills of Lading), the Visby Amendments (amending the Hague Rules), the Salvage Convention and many others.