"The greater part of this article was published ... early in 1903, in the Revue du droit public et de la science politique, vol. XIX, p. 193-213. It was subsequently revised and published in the University of Texas record, vol. V., p. 247-275, and in the Bulletins of the University of Texas, Humanistic series, no. 1."--P. [3] Filmed from the original held by: Harvard Law School Library.