text: - 196 -according to the rules and principle8 that applied to pecuniary compensation for material damage to the State. As for patrimonial damage, it had always been an area in which pecuniary compensation had found its most natural scope, and it was in connection with auoh damage that the principles, rules and standards for the application of the remedy of pecuniary comyensation had principally been developed by judicial decision8 and diplomatic prastiae. It was mainly in relation to patrimonial injuries that judicial decFsions and diplomatic practice had haU recourse to dietincti6ns and categories typical of private law -whether civil or common -and had adapted them to the peculiar features of international reeponeibility. 359. Two issues in particular, in paragraph 2, generated discussion. They were the expressions “economically assessable damage” and “moral damage”. With respect to “economically assessable damage”, some members felt that the phrase was not entirely alear and did not serve as guidance to arbitrators who had to make such determinations because it simply stated the obvious, namely that, in order to be compensated in pecuniary terms, damage had to be capable of being asseesed in economic terme. For some other members, the expression “economically assessable damage” was not so ambiguous. In many int3tances, in ’ assessing damages, they believed international tribunals had been guided by municipal legal systems. Under those eyatem8, dsmage was assessed, in the case of property, on the basis of the market value at the time of the damage or 1086, or,if that was not possible, on the basis of the intrinsic value and, in the case of personal injury, on the basis of the age and family and financial position of the injured person or the person killed. Presumably, that was the sense in which “economically assessable damage” was used. On Zhe
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the principles and rules governing pecuniary compensation for damage caused by international law, particularly in the context of patrimonial injuries. The language used is formal and legal, indicating a focus on international law and diplomacy. The discussion of "economically assessable damage" and "moral damage" suggests that the text is concerned with the assessment of damages in a legal context.