Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and nations. Also called law of nations.
Wiktionary
- n. Law which involves, for instance, the United Nations, maritime law, international criminal law and the Geneva Convention.
- n. Law which addresses the question of which legal jurisdiction cases may be heard in.
- n. Law covering situations where the laws of nation states are held inapplicable when conflicting with a supranational legal system.
- n. The term commonly used for referring to the system of implicit and explicit agreements that bind together nations.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. the rules regulating the mutual intercourse of nations. International law is mainly the product of the conditions from time to time of international intercourse, being drawn from diplomatic discussion, textbooks, proof of usage, and from recitals in treaties. It is called
public when treating of the relations of sovereign powers, andprivate when of the relations of persons of different nationalities. International law is now, by the better opinion, part of the common law of the land. Cf.Conflict of laws , under Conflict.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the body of laws governing relations between nations
Examples
“The entry of belligerent warships into neutral ports is gov - erned by international law and varies from country to coun - try (although they are all very similar and based on the 13th Hague Convention of 1907).”
“The problem is most expatriates then return to their home countries so this knowledge is lost to China," says Bernd-Uwe Stucken, Greater China managing partner for international law firm Salans.”
“After all that, its most well known feature apart from appearing in the Tom Cruise movieA Few Good Men is its status in international law: for as far as international law is concerned, Guantanamo Bay does not exist.”
“Mr Williams said that Judge Hunt's re-election would enable him to continue to make an important contribution to the Tribunal's work in bringing to justice persons who committed gross violations of international law in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991.”
“Goonewardene was Sri Lankan, educated in the United States in international law and diplomacy.”
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“As international law prohibited more than three warships of a belligerent nation visiting a neutral port at the same time, Leipzig and Dresden remained at sea, escorting colliers to Más Afuera.”
“Moreover, deci - sions of international courts and tribunals have persua - sive authority in public international law and the Stat - ute of the International Court of Justice (article 38) accepts national judicial decisions as a subsidiary source of law.”
“Judge Hunt was created an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in January 2000, for service to the judiciary, to the law and to the community, particularly in the areas of criminal law, the law of defamation and international law in defence of human rights.”
“Captain Lüdecke argued that his engines were disabled and that international law permitted him to stay eight days for repairs.”
“He changed the prewar “Sir B.rkeley Mean” to “Sir B.rkeley Goeben,” adding that “this most disastrous event … [a] lamentable blow to B.itish naval prestige, would never have occurred had Sir B. Milne had been off Messina with the three battle cruisers … as if international law mattered a damn.””
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