public international law


noun
  1. Also called public law. the law governing the legal relations between independent states or nations and, increasingly, between these and individuals.

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How to use public international law in a sentence

  • It is of the relations of states that public international law mainly treats.

    International Law | George Grafton Wilson and George Fox Tucker
  • It is as an expounder of public international law that his name will be most widely cherished.

  • These provisions are recognized by the signatory Powers, as henceforth forming part of public international law.

    Stanley in Africa | James P. Boyd