paragraph 385 in volume 3, chapter 27, The Decision

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By Article 59 of the Statute: ‘The decision of the Court has no binding force except between the parties and in respect of that particular case.’¹No equivalent provision appeared in the draft statute of the Permanent Court prepared in 1920 by the Advisory Committee of Jurists. Article 59 was added during later debates in the Council of the League, together with the introductory words of Article 38, paragraph 1 (d), to provide directly what some delegations thought was implied indirectly by Article 63 (see chapter 26, §…