Declaration by Judge Spiropoulos (as appended immediately after the judgment)

trative acts should have been performed there in the ordinary

course of affairs. However, the fact that local conditions have
necessitated the normal and unchallenged exercise of Netherlands
administrative activity provides an additional reason why, in the
absence of clear provisions of a treaty, there is no necessity to
disturbthe existing state of affairs and to perpetuate a geographical
anomaly.

Declaration by Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (as appended immediately after the judgment)

230 SOTrEREIGNTY OVER FRONTIER LAND (JUDGX~ENT 20 T71 59)
1892 and subsequently specifically covered by a separate Decla-

ration of December of that year. The Netherlands did not in 1892,
or at any time thereafter untilthe dispute arose between the two
States in 1922, repudiate the Belgian assertion of sovereignty.

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