Commentaries upon International Law
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ISBN13: 9780217461863
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: municipal law of the land will be applied to them (e); therefore a breach of comity cannot, strictly speaking, furnish a casus belli, or justify a recourse to war, any more than a discourtesy or breach of a natural duty, simply as such, can furnish ground for the private action of one individual against another (/). For a want of Comity towards the individual subjects of a foreign State, reciprocity of treatment by the State whose subject has been injured, is, after remonstrance has been exhausted, the only legitimate remedy; whereas the breach of a rule of Public International Law constitutes a casut bclli, and justifies in the last resort a recourse to war. It is proposed to treat the subject of Comity or Private International Law next in order to the subject of Public International Law. (/) Vattel, liv. ii. c. i. B. 10. CHAPTER III. SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW . XVII. It is proposed in this chapter to trace the source and ascertain the character of those laws which govern the mutual relations of independent States in their intercourse with each other. XVIII. International Law has been said, by one profoundly conversant with this branch of jurisprudence, to be made up of a good deal of complex reasoning, and though derived from very simple principles, altogether to comprise a very artificial system (a). XIX. What are the depositories of this reasoning and these principles? What are the authorities to which reference must be made for the adjustment of disputes arising upon their construction, or their application to particular instances ? What are in fact the fountains of International Jurisprudence?dijudicationum fontes to borrow the just expression of Grotius. These are questions which meet us on the threshold of this science, and which require as pr...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217461863 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217461867 |
| Weight | 1.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.07 In |
| List Price | $27.83 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 480 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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