Salaman v Secretary of State for India in Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1906
Year1906
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • STATE INCAPACITY AND SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2014, December 2014
    • 1 December 2014
    ...168 US 250 at 252 (1897). 67Attorney-General v Nissan[1970] AV 179 at 237. 68 See Salaman v Secretary of State in Council of India[1906] 1 KB 613. 69 See J Gillis Wetter, “Pleas of Sovereign Immunity and Act of Sovereignty before International Arbitral Tribunals”(1985) 2 J Int'l Arb 7 at 18......
  • Arbitration
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...defined as a conduct ‘done in the exercise of the State's supreme sovereign power’ (see Salaman v Secretary of State in Council of India[1906] 1 KB 613 at 613 and 639) and not a private dealing. The right is ascertainable by the nature of the transaction rather than the stature of the entit......
  • Implementation of Treaties in Nigeria and the Status Question: Whither Nigerian Courts?
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press African Journal of International and Comparative Law No. , September 2009
    • 1 September 2009
    ...court can take cognisance of it; it will remain an obligation between independent states. In Salaman v. Secretary of State for India,3636(1906) 1 KB 613, 639. Fletcher Moulton L.J., affirmed that municipal courts, ‘do not administer treaty obligations between independent states’. Cap. A9, c......

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