Act

Act

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on act explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.A term 'usually denoting a multilateral treaty which establishes rules of law or a

régime, such as the Act of Algeciras of 7 April 1906 [relating to the affairs of Morocco:

201 C.T.S. 39 ]. A Final Act has been defi ned as “a formal statement or summary of the proceedings

of a congress or conference, enumerating the treaties or related treaty instruments

drawn up as a result of its deliberations” [ Satow ' s Diplomatic Practice (5th ed.), 260]…

The term General Act is now usually employed when the instrument which enumerates

the several treaties or conventions resulting from a conference itself becomes a treaty,

these treaties or conventions being either embodied in it or annexed to it. Instances are the

General Acts of the Berlin Conference of 1885 [respecting the Congo: 165 C.T.S. 485 ] and

of the Brussels Conference of 1890 [relating to the African Slave Trade: 173 C.T.S. 293 ]

and the General Act signed at Geneva on 26 September 1928 for the Pacifi c Settlement

of International Disputes [ 93 L.N.T.S. 343 ]': McNair, Law of Treaties (2nd ed.), 234. The

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 23 May 1969 ( 1155 U.N.T.S. 331 ) makes no

specifi c mention of the term 'act'.[1]

Act

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See Also

• Law
• Rule of Law
• Law System
• Legislation

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See Also

• Governmental act
• Legislation
• Legislative act
• Statute

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Notes

1. The entry “act” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press