of Nairn in the County of Nairn on 27 March. The following year he was appointed a British member of the Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and in 1921 was elected a Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice established by the League of Nations. As a judge of the Permanent Court, he participated in the celebrated Lotus case in 1927, where the Court, by a bare majority, laid down the "Lotus principle" that States may exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction i.e. they may apply their national laws beyond their own borders, in any case where this is not explicitly prohibited. Finlay himself dissented from the majority decision. Finlay received the freedom of the Royal burgh of Nairn on 1 October 1902. Family Lord Finlay married Mary, daughter of Cosmo Innes, in 1874. She died in June 1911. Lord Finlay died in March 1929, aged 86, at his home in Kensington, London, and was buried at Nairn. He was succeeded in his titles by his son, William Finlay, later a Lord Justice of Appeal. Cases Cotman v Brougham [1918] AC 514 Lotus case 1927 PCIJ series A No.9 References External links People educated at Edinburgh Academy Lord chancellors of Great Britain Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Highland constituencies Scottish Liberal Party MPs Lawyers from Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom 1842 births 1929 deaths Solicitors General for England and Wales Attorneys General for England and Wales Rectors of the University of Edinburgh UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs who were granted peerages Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities Permanent Court of International Justice judges Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration Liberal Unionist Party MPs for Scottish constituencies Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George British judges of international courts and tribunals Conservative Party (UK) life peers Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Barons created by George V Viscounts created by George V Politicians from Edinburgh