CASE CONCERNING DELIMITATION OF THE MARITIME BOUNDARY IN THE GULF OF MAINE AREA (CANADA/UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

ABSTRACT The case is an issue upholding maritime boundary dispute subject to adjacency measured from the coast in furtherance to SPECIAL AGREEMENT (Dated: 29th MARCH, 1979), a matter in issue between the states of Canada and U.S.A on the different ends put to subject under The Gulf of Maine. The issue was put to ICJ’s Jurisdiction as filed under General List on the 25th Day of 1981’s November as per the specifications of the agreement to be decided under the specified norms of INTERNATIONAL LAW, which shall include the norms, the treaties, International Customary Laws and all that is a recognized part of sources under the embarkments established under International law. The case was a precedence which delimitated the theory of Natural Prolongation, a recognized theory till contradicted.