jus gentium
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of jus gentium
1540–50; < Latin: law of the nations
Example Sentences
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The jus gentium is not international law which derives its force and sanction from the free will of the legislator.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
Wherefore they err who would make the law of nature to differ in kind from jus gentium, which natural reason hath taught to all nations.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
The Roman Empire was founded on the basis of a common administrative system, and a common law—the jus gentium.
From The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 by D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset) Cranage
As to England, she was to be expelled from her continental dominions whenever America would be strong enough to enforce the "American jus gentium", and the sea was to be neutralized.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
The Roman was compelled to formulate a jus gentium, a law of nations, to deal with those who held, to him, a place beyond the pale of law as he knew it.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton
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