paragraph 174A in volume 2, chapter 11, Treaties and Conventions in Force
Dealing with the jurisdiction of the Court generally, the Informal Inter-Allied Committee of 1944 drew attention to paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 36 of the Statute of the Permanent Court (paragraph 2 is examined in chapter 12). Paragraph 1 refers to ‘all cases’ and ‘all matters’ as objects of the Court’s jurisdiction ratione materiae. Paragraph 2 uses the expression ‘all legal disputes’. The Committee found that the relationship between these two definitions of the Court…