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PEACE PRELIMINARIES [2 records]

Record 1 1987-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
CONT

The preamble to Art. 51 of the Peace Treaty represents the cession of Alsace-Lorraine, under the unusual name of reintegration, as the fulfilment of "the moral obligation to redress the wrong done by Germany in 1871 both to the rights of France and to the wishes of the population, which were separated from their country in spite of the solemn protest of their representatives at the Assembly of Bordeaux".

OBS

The territories which were ceded to Germany in accordance with the Preliminaries of Peace signed at Versailles on February 26, 1871, and the Treaty of Frankfurt of May 10, 1871, are restored to French sovereignty as from the date of the Armistice of November 11, 1918. The provisions of the Treaties establishing the delimitation of the frontiers before 1871 shall be restored.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
DEF

Remise, par un procédé autre dans son principe, ses modalités ou ses effets, que celui par lequel peut être acquise une situation juridique nouvelle, dans une situation juridique antérieurement perdue.

OBS

Terme employé : A l'égard de l'Alsace-Lorraine, par le traité de paix de Versailles du 28 juin 1919, lequel dispose : "Les H.P.C., ayant reconnu l'obligation morale de réparer le tort fait par l'Allemagne en 1871, tant au droit de la France qu'à la volonté des populations d'Alsace et de Lorraine, séparées de leur Patrie malgré la protestation solennelle de leurs représentants à l'Assemblée de Bordeaux, - Sont d'accord sur les articles suivants : - Art. 51. Les territoires cédés à l'Allemagne, en vertu des Préliminaires de Paix, signés à Versailles le 26 février 1871 et du Traité de Francfort du 10 mai 1871, sont réintégrés dans la souveraineté française à dater de l'Armistice du 11 novembre 1918".

Spanish

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Record 2 1987-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
CONT

Although ready to terminate the war through a treaty of peace, belligerents are frequently not able to settle all the terms at once. In such cases hostilities are usually brought to an end through so-called preliminaries of peace, the definitive treaty to take the place of the preliminaries being concluded later on. Such preliminaries are a treaty in themselves, embodying an agreement between the parties regarding such terms of peace as are essential. Preliminaries are as binding as any other treaty, and therefore need ratification. Very often, but not necessarily, the definitive treaty of peace is concluded at a place other than that at which the preliminaries were settled.

CONT

... a preliminary treaty of peace may be either of two things. Sometimes it is only a promise to conclude a final treaty of peace, that is to say, a simple pactum de contrahendo. But sometimes also a preliminary treaty of peace contains clauses which manifestly restore peace, although the settlement of certain questions is altogether reserved for the final treaty.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
DEF

Accord conclu entre États belligérants en vue de mettre fin à la guerre et qui, suivant les dispositions qu'il contient, soit constitue seulement une promesse de conclure la paix, soit opère le rétablissement de la paix en laissant à un traité ultérieur le soin de régler les questions que cet accord préliminaire laisse en suspens.

Spanish

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