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The Language of the Statute
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paragraph 10A in volume 1, chapter 2, The Establishment and Constitution of the Court

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The original draft of the Statute of the Permanent Court was in French. An English version was prepared and the authentic texts of that Statute were English and French, the French version being the original. The contemporary documents do not indicate how that English version was prepared, but presumably it was a translation undertaken by the Secretariat, no doubt in consultation with competent English-speaki…

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Malcolm N. Shaw, “The Language of the Statute”, in: Rosenne's Law and Practice of the International Court: 1920-2015. Consulted online on 27 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-5992_rose_COM_0010A>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20161001



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