Acquiescence,recognition and estoppel Intertemporal law Legal and political arguments Minor rights over territory Servitudes Chapter 11 Legal consequences of changes of sovereignty over territory(state succession) Treaties Treaties dealing with rights over territory Other types of treaties The principle of 'moving treaty boundaries Decolonization and new states Recent practice Secession Baltic states Dismemberment Soviet Union Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Unification Germany Yemen International claims Nationality Public property Private property Contractual rights Chapter 12 The law of the sea Internal waters Territorial sea The right of innocent passage Rights of the coastal state over the territorial sea The width of the territorial sea The line from which the territorial sea is measured The contiguous zone Exclusive fishery zones and exclusive economic zone The high seas Interference with ships on the high seas Jurisdiction of municipal courts over crimes committed on the high seas 66 Acquiescence, recognition and estoppel Intertemporal law Legal and political arguments Minor rights over territory Servitudes Chapter 11 Legal consequences of changes of sovereignty over territory (state succession) Treaties Treaties dealing with rights over territory Other types of treaties The principle of ‘moving treaty boundaries’ Decolonization and new states Recent practice Secession Baltic states Dismemberment Soviet Union Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Unification Germany Yemen International claims Nationality Public property Private property Contractual rights Chapter 12 The law of the sea Internal waters Territorial sea The right of innocent passage Rights of the coastal state over the territorial sea The width of the territorial sea The line from which the territorial sea is measured The contiguous zone Exclusive fishery zones and exclusive economic zones The high seas Interference with ships on the high seas Jurisdiction of municipal courts over crimes committed on the high seas