International Law Glossary and Terms
This collection provides some commonly used words encountered in international law and used within this website.
International Law definition:
A combination of treaties and customs which regulates the conduct of states amongst themselves, and persons who trade or have legal relationships which involve the jurisdiction of more than one state.
International Law
It refers the rules formed in between two nations which bind them legally for any issues in different jurisdiction.
INTERNATIONAL LAW
A combination of treaties and customs which regulates the conduct of states amongst themselves.
International Law
a group of laws, rules, or principles that are based on custom, treaties, or legislation and that control or affect the duties and rights of sovereign nations in relation to each other.
international law
n. treaties between countries; multi-lateral agreements; some commissions covering particular subjects, such as whaling or copyrights; ...
International law
Main articles: Public international law, Conflict of laws, and European Union law
Providing a constitution for public international law, the United Nations system was agreed during World War II ...
Private International Law
also known as conflict of laws. It regulates those disputes where the choice of which nation's or state's laws to apply could influence the outcome of the case.
International Law. - The international law as to the navigation of the high seas has been sketched above.
International Law. The acquisition of the sovereignty of a country by force of arms, exercised by an independent power which reduces the vanquished to the submission of its empire.
International law is generally divided into two branches; 1. The natural law of nations, consisting of the rules of justice applicable to the conduct of states. 2. The positive law of nations, which consist of, 1.
PACTIONS
International law. When contracts between nations are to be performed by a single act, and their execution is at an end at once, they are not called... more ...
Principles of international law so fundamental that no nation may ignore them or attempt to contract out of them through treaties.
For example, genocide and participating in a slave trade are thought to be jus cogens.
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A term of international law: those groups of people which have acquired international recognition as an independent country and which have four characteristics; permanent and large population with, generally, a common language; ...
Abolished from the common law in 1624 and, in France, at the time of the Revolution, the principle of sanctuary continues today, in somewhat altered form, as diplomatic asylum under international law. TOP Scienter : Latin for knowledge.
International law or law of nations. The law which regulates the conduct and mutual intercourse of independent states with each other by reason and natural justice. 1 Bl. Com. xxiv, 43. Law of the land.
Space law is an area of the law that encompasses national and international law governing activities in outer space.
In modern international law, the granting of asylum to refugees from other lands is the right of a state by virtue of its territorial sovereignty.
: a principle of international law that is based on values taken to be fundamental to the international community and that cannot be set aside (as by treaty) < ...
A lawsuit under the ATS can proceed for any harm resulting from a violation of international law, no matter where the harm occurred, or who inflicted the harm, as long as the plaintiff serves process in U.S. Territory. Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.
Lifeboat drill: the master of every vessel is bound by international law to make the officers, crew and passengers adequately acquainted with the procedures of lowering and the use of lifeboats in case of emergency.
In America, Congress is composed of the two legislative bodies, the Senate and the House of Representatives. 2. In international law, ...
 See also: National, Law, State, Court, Public
  
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