Briggs, supra note 437, at 91.

Briggs, supra note 437, at 96.

Briggs, supra note 28, at 942 43.

Briggs, The Law of Nations, 2nd ed., 1953, p. 943.

During the work of the Institute in 1983 Professor Briggs stated that

Other authorities take a more emollient view, as in the case of Briggs

See Hall, op. cit., pp. 458 and 459 and Briggs, op. cit., p. 939.

Herbert W. Briggs, The Attorney General Invokes Rebus Sic Stantibus, 36 American Journal of International Law 89 (1942).

v. L.CH., 85 Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Zivilsachen 374 (Reichsgericht, 1914) (reported in Briggs, supra note 28, at 934).

Briggs, supra note 437, at 94 (citing Harvard Research in International Law, Law of Treaties, supra note 17, at 1102.

Herbert W. Briggs, The Attorney General Invokes Rebus Sic Stantibus, 36 American Journal of International Law 89 (1942) Rank, supra note 34, at 337 38.

Annuaire de l'Institut de droit international, vol. 61 (I), pp. 8 and 9 and see also Briggs, The Law of Nations, 2nd ed., 1953, p. 938.

The shutout was the first of the tournament for the United States goalie, Jackie Briggs, who had allowed one goal in each of the first three victories.

The principle, and its practical significance, is also recognized by Briggs (The Law of Nations, 2nd ed., 1953, p. 942) and by Aust (Modern Treaty Law and Practice, 2000, p. 233).

IDI resolution, supra note 19, at art. 6 ( A treaty establishing an international organization is not affected by the existence of an armed conflict between any of its parties ) Briggs, supra note 28, at 945.

Briggs concluded that t he dangers inherent in a general resort by states to the doctrine of rebus sic stantibus for release from inconvenient treaty obligations could be no better illustrated than in the reasoning and methods employed by the Attorney General in this case .

Briggs goes so far as to claim that the legal right of a belligerent State to regard as terminated or regard as suspended treaties incompatible with a state of war is as well established as the doctrine that treaties containing express provisions on wartime applicability will be honoured.

Briggs, supra note 437, at 90 91 (citing Chesney Hill, The Doctrine of Rebus Sic Stantibus in International Law, in 9 University of Missouri Studies 7 (1934)). See also Kiss, supra note 435, at 796 98 (providing extensive evidence that the rebus sic stantibus doctrine is not automatic).

Herbert Briggs argued that the doctrine of rebus sic stantibus, if it exists at all, is clearly based juridically upon the intention of the parties at the time of the conclusion of the treaty , and that according to the terms of the Load Line Conventions, the parties' intentions were not to allow suspension due to war per se, but only as a result of notification of all other parties and subject to a one year waiting period.