| 单词 | international law | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasinternational law   international law  n. the body or branch of law concerned with dealings between nations; a law of this kind (cf. private international law n. at private adj.1, adv., and n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > 			[noun]		 > law of nations or international law the law of nations1548 public law1548 jus gentium?1549 international law1789 1789    J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. Pref. 6  				Principles of legislation in matters betwixt nation and nation, or, to use a new though not inexpressive appellation, in matters of international law. 1831    J. Rennie Insect Misc. xiii. 342  				It [sc. an ant] always scampered off with the utmost trepidation, as if well aware..that it had infringed an international law. 1872    Daily News 3 Oct. 2  				What was international law? It was once very happily defined in the Times as the limit of the conscience of the strongest. 1917    S. D. Fess Probl. Neutrality (U.S. House of Representatives Doc. 2111) 298  				It would still be easily practicable to comply with the well-recognized and reasonable prohibition of international law against the blockading of neutral ports. 1990    Green Mag. Nov. 47/2  				Issues should be dealt with under international laws like the Helsinki agreements and the Geneva Convention. 2006    Independent 28 Oct. 33/1  				He appeared to support ‘water-boarding’—a torture technique banned by the Pentagon and under international law. international law  c.   international law,  the law of nations, under which nations are regarded as individual members of a common polity, bound by a common rule of agreement or custom; opposed to  municipal law, the rules binding in local jurisdictions (see municipal adj. and n.).The term law of nations (Latin jus gentium) meant in Roman use the rules common to the law of all nations (often coupled with law of nature in sense  9c; so in Shakespeare  Henry V ii. iv. 80 and  Troilus ii. ii. 184). The transition to the modern sense was facilitated by the appeal to ‘the law of nations’ in relation to such matters as the treatment of ambassadors or the obligation to observe treaties. ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > 			[noun]		 > law of nations or international law the law of nations1548 public law1548 jus gentium?1549 international law1789 1548    Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxix  				He was an officer of armes (to whom, credite by the lawe of all nacions, ought to be geuen). 1593    R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie  i. x. 76  				There is a third kinde of lawe which toucheth all such seuerall bodies politique, so far forth as one of them hath publique commerce with another. And this third is the Lawe of nations. ?1637    T. Hobbes tr.  Aristotle Briefe Art Rhetorique i. 58  				The Law or Custome of Nations. 1723    Pres. State Russia II. 283  				Beaten, and contrary to the Law of Nations, taken into Custody. 1769    W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 66  				The law of nations is a system of rules..established by universal consent among the civilized inhabitants of the world. 1870    Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Dec. 10  				Between municipal law..and international law, there is only a qualified and even a somewhat remote analogy. 1896    Ld. Russell of Killowen in  Law Q. Rev. XII. 313  				The aggregate of the rules to which nations have agreed to conform in their conduct towards one another are properly to be designated ‘International Law’. 1896    Ld. Russell of Killowen in  Law Q. Rev. XII. 317  				International Law, as such, includes only so much of the law of morals or of right reason or of natural law (whatever these phrases may cover) as nations have agreed to regard as International Law. 1900    U.S. Rep. 		(Supreme Court)	 175 700  				International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination. < as lemmas | 
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