public international law

noun

1. Also called public law. the law governing the legal relations between independent states or nations and, increasingly, between these and individuals.
2. conflict of laws ( def 2 ).

Example Sentences

It is of the relations of states that public international law mainly treats.

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It is as an expounder of Public International Law that his name will be most widely cherished.

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These provisions are recognized by the signatory Powers, as henceforth forming part of public international law.

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