the Contiguous Air Space Zone in International Law.

• Main Author: Murchison, John Taylor.
• Other Authors: Cooper, J. (Supervisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 1955
• Subjects: International Air Law.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110036

Two States, namely the United States and Canada, have seen fit, in recent years, to formulate rules, for security purposes, in respect of identification and control of aircraft approaching their coasts, or within certain fixed zones contiguous to the coast, whereby, in effect, they assert a jurisdiction for that limited purpose only, which departs drastically from the popular conception in Maritime Law of the three-mile limit, six-mile limit, or twelve-mile limit, which has heretofore been generally accepted, among laymen particularly, and by governments, and indeed, by some international lawyers, as the limit to which a State may exercise jurisdiction over the high seas contiguous to its coasts, for various purposes. [...]