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‖ jus gentium|dʒʌs ˈdʒɛnʃɪəm|
[L.]
= law of nations (see law n.1 4 c).
1548Hooper Declar. Commandm. iii. 31 They shuld observe the commune lawes vsyd among all people whiche is callid ius gentium. 1682Evelyn Let. 19 Sept. in Diary & Corresp. (1906) 666 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’ Lett. (1772) II. lxi. 285 Any law that contradicts or excludes the common law of England; whether it be canon, civil, jus gentium, or levitical. 1839Penny 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. 1856Bouvier Law Dict. (ed. 6) I. 685 Among the Romans by jus civile was understood the civil law, in contradistinction to the public law, or jus gentium. 1880Encycl. 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. 1959Jowitt Dict. Eng. Law II. 1035/1 Jus gentium, the law of nations. |