" IN the days of Bynkershoek, a cannon carried approximately three miles; hence the
statement that a nation may occupy and exercise ownership over waters three miles within …

THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF THE THREE-MILE LIMIT Jesus College, Cambridge I The
generally accepted view that the three-mile limit Page 1 THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF THE …

After any close inquiry into the present authority of the rule of the threemile limitof territorial
waters, the candid observer will probabjy come to the conclusion that therule, while not …

When I proposed this subject last fall to the International Law Association I was aware of its
large potentialities, but I must admit that its development has been more rapid and extensive …

ON August 2, 1858, the Royal Assent was given to an Act called the Cornwall Submarine
Mines Act, which declared in Section 2 that minerals won from mines and workings below …

ALTHOUGH the Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone affirms the
sovereignty of the coastal State in its territorial sea, and to that extent has diminished an …

It is not too much to say that the confused condition of the law of territorial waters has for
years hampered commerce, delayed and impaired the administration of justice, and …

The judgment of the International Court of Justice in the Anglo-Norwegian Fisheries case
will rank among the boldest and most important judgments pronounced by any international …

1 This study was prepared in connexion with a programme of research on the legal status of
international waterways conducted at the Law School of Harvard University, The author is …

“… Since it is essential that all frontiers, whether on land or at sea, should be certain and
definite, all rights which depend for their exercise upon territorial sovereignty must be valid …