Meaning of jus gentium | Babel Free

Definitions

The law of nations; international law.

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Examples

“This was always law in all states, as part of jus gentium, for the fact of a people building a wall round their town was looked upon as an assumption of independent power, and significative of claims inconsistent with or dangerous to the sovereigns.”

“The Islamic law of nations is part of the corpus of Islamic law, just as the original jus gentium was a branch of municipal Roman law.”

“There is a long line of English law which declares that the customary law of nations, jus gentium, is directly part of the common law of this nation.”

“The Roman jurisconsults (lawyers) and praetors (judges) had become a permanent heritage, and the Roman idea of a jus gentium, a law applying to all people, survived at least in the ideal.”

“Embracing the ancient legal doctrine of jus gentium, Bates declared independence.”

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