Note 116 — Chapter I · INTERNATIONAL PERSONS

This is the real portent of the judgment in the case of Cook v. Sprigg, L.R. (1899), A.C. 572, and in the case of the West Rand Central Gold Mining Co. v. The King (1905), 2 K.B. 391. In so far as the latter judgment denies the existence of a rule of International Law that compels a subjugator to pay the debts of the subjugated State, its arguments are in no wise decisive. An International Court would recognise such a rule.