Jus Gentium Definition

yo͝os gĕntē-əm, jŭs jĕnshē-əm
noun
The laws common to all people as distinguished from those applying only to Roman citizens.
Webster's New World

International law.

Webster's New World

Origin of Jus Gentium

  • Latin iūs gentium iūs law gentium genitive pl. of gēns nation

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin ius gentium.

    From Wiktionary

Jus Gentium Sentence Examples

  • Tables towards the wider, more general and more humane jus gentium.

  • Both jus naturale and lex naturalis are as early as Cicero, and the jus gentium of the Roman lawyers is earlier still.

  • It supplied them with an incentive to scientific research in archaeology and grammar; it penetrated jurisprudence until the belief in the ultimate identity of the jus gentium with the law of nature modified the praetor's edicts for centuries.

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