jus gentium
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iūs gentium. See the calque law of nations for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
jus gentium (uncountable)
- (law) The law of nations; international law.
- 1853 April 13, John Jackson, “The City of Manchester”, in The Manchester Guardian, page 8:
- This was always law in all states, as part of jus gentium, for the fact of a people building a wall round their town was looked upon as an assumption of independent power, and significative of claims inconsistent with or dangerous to the sovereigns.
- 1982 April, Gamal M. Badr, “A Survey of Islamic International Law”, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law), volume 76, →JSTOR, page 56:
- The Islamic law of nations is part of the corpus of Islamic law, just as the original jus gentium was a branch of municipal Roman law.
- 1989 October 27, Keith Motherson, “Universal jurisdiction and war crimes against humanity”, in The Guardian, page 22:
- There is a long line of English law which declares that the customary law of nations, jus gentium, is directly part of the common law of this nation.
- 2000 January 9, “Rules Have Changed But Little in the Past Millennium of Law”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, page 26:
- The Roman jurisconsults (lawyers) and praetors (judges) had become a permanent heritage, and the Roman idea of a jus gentium, a law applying to all people, survived at least in the ideal.
- 2012 October 11, “Prince Roy of Sealand”, in The Daily Telegraph:
- Embracing the ancient legal doctrine of jus gentium, Bates declared independence.
Translations
law of nations — see law of nations
References
- “jus gentium, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “jus gentium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Latin
Noun
jūs gentium n sg (genitive jūris gentium); third declension
- medieval spelling of iūs gentium
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem) with an indeclinable portion, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | jūs gentium |
| Genitive | jūris gentium |
| Dative | jūrī gentium |
| Accusative | jūs gentium |
| Ablative | jūre gentium |
| Vocative | jūs gentium |
References
- “jus gentium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin