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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Jay Treaty (1794)

Katja S Ziegler

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 12 February 2025

Subject(s):
Act of state — Peace treaties — Claims commissions — Mixed Claims Commissions

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

Original version published August 2007; updated by author April 2013; updated by author November 2024. 1 The so-called Jay Treaty (Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and the United States (1794)) was negotiated on the American side by John Jay (1745–1829), the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and former Secretary of Foreign Affairs who had already negotiated the Definitive Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the United States (1783) (‘Paris Peace Treaty’; Peace Treaties), and on the British side by...
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