...States and Great Britain were then concerned was submitted to arbitration, Bee Ch. it was agreed that ' Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title.' The part of South America in question had, however, been occupied in a halfhearted and not particularly...

...Britain and Venezuela laid down the following rule (among others) for the conduct of the arbitrators: "Adverse holding or prescription during a period of...adverse holding or to make title by prescription." I Moore, Digest, § 88, p. 297. For other instances of international practice, see Ralston, in 4 AJ...

...November 1896) submitting the boundary question to an arbitral tribunal, to be governed by the rule that ' adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title '.1 Thus Cleveland and Olney secured their principle that the whole territory in dispute should be...

...law not inconsistent therewith as the arbitrators shall determine to be applicable to the case. Rules (a) Adverse holding or prescription during a period...adverse holding or to make title by prescription. (b) The arbitrators may recognize and give effect to rights and claims resting on any other ground...

...prescription during a period of fifty years should make a good title, and that the arbitrators might deem exclusive political control of a district, as well as actual settlement, sufficient to constitute adverse holding or to make title by prescription. On the 10th of November,...

...not inconsistent therewith as the arbitrators shall determine to be applicable to the case. BULBS. (a) Adverse holding or prescription during a period...adverse holding or to make title by prescription. may deem to be applicable to the case and which are not in contravention of the foregoing rule. (c)...

...(Martens, NRG2, XXVIII, 328), on the contrary, provided for arbitral proceedings on the following basis: "Adverse holding or prescription during a period of...adverse holding or to make title by prescription". I personally attribute no validity to these latter provisions as evidence of the recognition of the...

...1872, LXDC, pp. 653 et seq. [C. 545]. * The letter is also printed in Westlake, Papers, pp. 414-16. holding or prescription during a period of fifty years...adverse holding or to make title by prescription. ' The effect of that provision was to circumscribe at the outset the powers of the Tribunal and to...

...agreement, as in the case of the British Guiana Arbitration in 1897, where the parties agreed that 'adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make good title ' and that ' the arbitrators may deem exclusive political control of a district, as well...

...daring a period of fiftv years shall make a good title. The arbitrators may deem exclusive politicaf control of a district as well as actual settlement thereof sufficient to constitute advert holding, or to make title by prescription. (r.) In determining the boundary line, if territory...