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  • IV. Pacta Sunt Servanda or International Guarantee

  • E. Satow
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Historical Journal / Volume 1 / Issue 3 / 1925
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 December 2011, pp. 295-318
    Print publication:
    1925

  • At an early period it was seen to be necessary that the observation of treaties should be ensured by the adoption of various sanctions besides the signatures of the high contracting parties.

    A probably complete list of the expedients employed for the confirmation and execution of treaties up to, say, the end of the sixteenth century would include the following:

    An oath taken by the high contracting parties, as well as by their plenipotentiaries and other persons of importance.