In 1990, the U. S. Army Adjutant General's Office issued a legal opinion holding that the Sierra MatchKing bullet, despite being an open-tip design, is not designed specifically to cause greater damage or suffering in a human target, and in fact normally does not create a wound readily distinguishable from wounds caused by conventional full metal jacket bullets, and is therefore in their opinion legal under the Hague Convention for use in war.

This does not violate the Hague Convention, as it specifically mentions bullets that expand or flatten in the body.

The Hague Convention of 1899, Declaration III, prohibits the use in international warfare of bullets which easily expand or flatten in the body, giving as example a bullet with a jacket with incisions or one that does not fully cover the core.

Even when the Hague does not apply, a home study and USCIS ( United States Citizen and Immigration Services )( formerly INS ( Immigration and Naturalization Service ) approval are requirements.

The foregoing rule ( Article 23 of the Annex of the IVth Hague Convention ), does not prohibit such use, but does prohibit their improper use.

The Hague Service Convention does not prohibit a receiving state from permitting international service by other methods otherwise authorized by local law ( for example, service directly by mail or personal service by a person otherwise authorized to service process in the foreign country ).

No man could have reached his spot nor held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a virtue of ruthlessness all of his life.

Documents which have been notarized by a notary public, and certain other documents, and then certified with a conformant apostille are accepted for legal use in all the nations that have signed the Hague Convention.

The Hague Conference and other international bodies have made recommendations on jurisdictional matters, but litigants with the encouragement of lawyers on a contingent fee continue to shop for forums.

Van Goyen's troubles also may have affected the early business prospects of his student and son-in-law Jan Steen, who left The Hague in 1654.

In order for the administration to maintain control over city matters, The Hague never received official city status ( although it did have many of the privileges normally granted only to cities ).

Huygens is not known ever to have made a clock himself, however ; he contracted the construction of his designs to Salomon Coster in The Hague.

Another potentially important consequence of the peace might have been that a number of provisions of the Treaty of The Hague, that had been conditional on a peace, like the reduction of the French army of occupation, would now have become operational.

United States courts have held that, at least for some purposes, the Warsaw Convention is a different instrument from the Warsaw Convention as Amended by the Hague Protocol.

In 2002, the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) was established in The Hague ( Netherlands ) and the Rome Statute provides for the ICC to have jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

of South Carolina ) writes that atrocities were many in the South Carolina backcountry: women and children slaughtered, prisoners executed without trial, whole towns put to the torch ...." In the 1990s instead of the 1780s, such as Banastre Tarleton and James Wemyss would have been indicted by the International Tribunal at the Hague as war criminals.

) de Raedt, 1st Baronet, of the Hague ( 1660 ), dormant-surname may have changed to " Rhett "

Although the invitation was not signed by Churchill ( he was not, as yet, of sufficient political rank to be a signatory ), he declared his intention through William's principal English contact in The Hague – " If you think there is anything else that I ought to do, you have but to command me.

In July 1999, the then-Conservative leader William Hague said that " English MPs should have exclusive say over English laws ... People will become increasingly resentful that decisions are being made in England by people from other parts of the UK on matters that English people did not have a say on elsewhere ...

Duncan Smith followed William Hague as only the second Conservative Party leader since Austen Chamberlain not to have become Prime Minister and was the first since Neville Chamberlain not to have led the party in a general election.

The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, even though the States-General and the government have been both situated in The Hague since 1588.

To this end, various international conventions regarding interjurisdictional enforcement of maintenance orders have been created, including the Hague Conference's 1973 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions relating to Maintenance Obligations and the 1956 United Nations Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance.

These are used primarily for hunting and civilian antipersonnel use ; they are not generally used by the military, since the use of expanding bullets in international conflicts is prohibited by the Hague Convention and because these bullets have less chance of penetrating modern body armor.

After William Hague ruled out Britain joining the euro under a Conservative government, former cabinet minister Ian Gilmour said he would vote for the PECP, and four former Conservative MPs-Julian Critchley, Nicholas Scott, David Knox, Robert Hicks-and four former MEPs-Margaret Daly, Adam Fergusson, Madron Seligman and Anthony Simpson-wrote in a letter to The Times that " We would have wished that William Hague's party had put forward a manifesto more like that of the Pro Euro Conservative Party.

Five countries, including the Netherlands, have signed on to the Hague Convention on the Law applicable to Matrimonial Property Regimes, which entered into force on 1 September 1992, which allows spouses to choose not only the regimes offered by their country, but also any regime in force in the country where at least one is a citizen or resident or where marital real estate is situated.

Van Gogh appears to have been introduced to him by his brother Theo, and the pair sketched together in the working-class districts of The Hague.

In addition, the Nuremberg War Trial judgment on " The Law Relating to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity " held, under the guidelines Nuremberg Principles, that treaties like the Hague Convention of 1907, having been widely accepted by " all civilised nations " for about half a century, were by then part of the customary laws of war and binding on all parties whether the party was a signatory to the specific treaty or not.

The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg held that the disappearances committed as part of the Nacht und Nebel program were war crimes which violated both the Hague Conventions and customary international law.

Until the 1970s this was covered by customary law and IV Hague Convention " The Laws and Customs of War on Land " of 1907 and specifically articles 25 – 29.

This wording in the Rome Statute is taken almost word for word from Article 23 of the 1907 IV Hague Convention The Laws and Customs of War on Land: "... it is especially forbidden-... To kill or wound an enemy who, having laid down his arms, or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion ", and is part of the customary laws of war.

In 1993 the UN Security Council " acting under Chapter VII of the Charter on the United Nations " approved a report by the Secretary General which concluded beyond doubt that the law applicable in armed conflict as embodied in the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Hague Convention ( IV ) of 18 October 1907 had become part of international customary law.

* Judgement: The Law Relating to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity contained in the Avalon Project archive at Yale Law School, contains the stated expansion of customary law " the Convention Hague 1907 expressly stated that it was an attempt ' to revise the general laws and customs of war ,' which it thus recognised to be then existing, but by 1939 these rules laid down in the Convention were recognised by all civilised nations, and were regarded as being declaratory of the laws and customs of war which are referred to in Article 6 ( b ) of the Charter.

The Hague Conventions of 1907 further clarified and supplemented these customary laws.

As such, it is widely considered to be the first written recital of the customary law of war, in force between the civilized nations and peoples since time immemorial, and the precursor to the Hague Regulations of 1907, the treaty-based restatement of the customary law of war.

It comprises " the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Conventions, as well as subsequent treaties, case law, and customary international law.

The laws of war, also known as jus in bello, were long a matter of customary law before they were codified in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, Geneva Conventions, and other treaties.

Major treaties such as the Geneva Convention and Hague Convention, and customary international law from history, protect the rights of captured regular and irregular members of an enemy's military, along with civilians from enemy states.

The Laws and Customs of War on Land ( Hague IV ) of 18 October 1907 and the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 are examples of conventional laws that are declarations of customary law.

It concluded beyond doubt that the law applicable in armed conflict as embodied in the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Hague Convention ( IV ) of 18 October 1907 had become part of international customary law, and should be part of the subject matter jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Consideration is being given to creating a Rotterdam-The Hague metropolitan area ( metropoolregio ).

Hague has a widely-known reputation for corruption and bossism and has been called " the grandaddy of Jersey bosses.

In 1917, Hague, with his reputation as the man who cleaned up the police force, ran for reelection.

His reputation and the confidence reposed in him were shown by his appointment in 1649 as secretary to the commission sent to the Hague to treat with Charles II by the Scots Parliament.

He laid the foundation for his reputation as a great expert in international law at the same time through diligent work in international meetings, and became a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1904 at The Hague.