DRAGO DOCTRINE - Black's Law Dictionary

Definition of DRAGO DOCTRINE in Black's Law Dictionary 4th Edition – Legal dictionary – Glossary of legal terms.

Definition of DRAGO DOCTRINE

The principle asserted by Luis Drago, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, in a letter to the Argentine Minister at Washington, December 29, 1902, that the forcible intervention of states to secure the payment of public debts due to their citizens from foreign states is unjustifiable and dangerous to the security and peace of the nations of South America. The subject was brought before the Conference by the United States and a Convention was adopted in which the contracting powers agreed, with some restrictive conditions, not to have recourse to armed force for the recovery of contract debts claimed by their nationals against a foreign state. Higgins, 184-197. See Calvo Doctrine.

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