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1459. COMPACTS, Infractions of.—[continued].

Where a party from
necessity or danger withholds compliance with
part of a treaty, it is bound to make com


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pensation where the nature of the case admits
and does not dispense with it.—
Opinion on French Treaties. Washington ed. vii, 617. Ford ed., vi, 224.
(1793)