jus gentiumn.
/dʒʌs ˈdʒɛnʃɪəm/ = law of nations (see law n.1 4c).
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the law of nations1548
public law1548
jus gentium?1549
international law1789
?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. iii. 31 They shuld observe the commune lawes vsyd among all people whiche is callid ius gentium.
1682 J. Evelyn Let. 19 Sept. in Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 270 The right of passes, and petitions thereupon, were formed upon another part of the Jus Gentium, than our pretended dominion of the seas.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxi. 285 Any law that contradicts or excludes the common law of England; whether it be canon, civil, jus gentium, or levitical.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 361/2 According to their [sc. Roman lawyers'] phraseology,..jus gentium consists of those rules of law which are common to all nations.
1856 Bouvier's Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 6) I. 685 Among the Romans by jus civile was understood the civil law, in contradistinction to the public law, or jus gentium.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 191/1 The ambiguity of the phrase jus gentium enabled the early founders of international law to apply the principles of the jus naturæ to the conduct of states inter se in a way of which there is no example in the Roman law-books.
1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1035/1 Jus gentium, the law of nations.
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