单词 | municipal law |
释义 | > as lemmasmunicipal 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. municipal law municipal law n. the law of a particular state, as distinguished from international law (see also quot. 1959).extracted from municipaladj.n.< as lemmas |
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