Definition of jus gentium in English:
jus gentium
noun -ʃɪəmˌdʒʌs ˈdʒɛntɪəmˈɡɛntɪəmˈjəs ˈjenSHēəm
mass nounLaw International law.
Example sentencesExamples
- There was another law, though it was still under the umbrella of Rome and its empire, for people who were not Roman - the jus gentium, or the law of people generally.
- They had the whole jus gentium to deal with them.
- He argued that the English crown used a letter patent to authorize overseas activities primarily to show the ‘outer world’ that these enterprises were consistent with the evolving jus gentium.
- Although he does not fully develop this idea, it is strikingly reminiscent of the way the jus gentium developed in the Roman Empire; he has laid out a foundation block for his own civilizational dialogue.
- People are brought under our power as slaves either by the civil law or by the jus gentium.
Origin
Latin, literally 'law of nations'.