[...] [P]art I of this study deals with a purely juristic discussion about public control of air transport. Points dealt with in part I are reviewed in part II in the light of national legislations. This approach will allow us not only to draw conclusions regarding air transport policy and control of airline operation and management, but also to analyse to what extent the existing situation is the best. [...]

Il s'est agi de rassembler en un ensemble unique les lois existantes en matière civile et commerciale au sujet de l'aviation, en laissant de coté les texted complémentaires tels que les décrets d'application. [...]

The main scope or this Work and that I Will deal with, is to present a thorough study or past and present decisions concerning the allocation or jurisdiction over events aboard aircrart in international flight. In recommending policies for the future, I Should determine the applicability of the factors affecting the general process ot decision to the specific problem relating to the aircraft issue. In an active world of constant interaction, since the advent or the aircraft, there has been an increasing need for collaboration or individuals and nation states. Therefore, effective control of participants in certain particular events of value shaping and sharing is needed, so that the states will be villing to maintain public order by yielding part or their sovereignty towards the lines of an international procedure. [...]

Depuis plus d'un quart de siècle, nombreux sont les juristes qui se sont penchés sur le problème si apparamentt simple mais si réellement complexe de la responsabilité du transporteur aérien. [...]

All contracts of air carriage nowadays contain provisions limiting or excluding the liability of the carrier in the event of the negligence or otherwise of himself or his servants and agents. Since, in the vast majority of cases, the carrier employs servants and agents for the purpose of carrying out his obligations under his contracts to carry, the injury or damage complained of will invariably be the result of the acts of these servants or agents. The injured party will then have a choice of actions. He may sue the carrier whose vicarious liability is limited by the contract or he may sue the servant or agent who actually caused the damage.

A Dutch aircraft, on its way from Geneva to London, has an accident in Belgium. One of the victims, a Frenchman domiciled in Denmark, had purchased his ticket in Stockholm. Which law applies to the claims of the passenger's widow against the carrier: Dutch, Swiss, English, Belgian, French, Danish, or Swedish law? Of this kind of hypothetic cases, frequently presented in writings on air law, McNAIR says: "Far-fetched though these examples may appear at first sight, they are by no means beyond the realms of possibility."

The granting of rights to operate international air services has been the subject of two different approachs before and after the Second World War. There has been one unchanged question to solve: the problem of reciprocity between the different countries in providing such service, for the normal establishment of international air routes. [...]

The term 'international organization' embraces two quite different kinds of institutions, the 'inter-governmental organization' and the 'non-governmental organization'. [...]

In the vast expanse of the law, there is probably no branch or division which can trace its history farther back, or which is more important to the general public, including as it does innumerable elements of everyday life, than that branch of law dealing with Private Property. The term ‘Property’ has a bewildering variety of uses. However, basically it is used in two senses: that of ownership or title, and also to designate the ‘res’ over which ownership is or has been exercised. This one word is used to express both the genus and the species. The relationship between the individual and the ‘res’ which is his own property is known as the rights of ownership.

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