International law

Writers on international law . . . cannot make the law … it must have received the assent of the nations who are to be bound by it. This assent may be express … or may be implied from established usage.

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International law is part of the common law.

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International law, like the moral law, is part of the law of England, but only to the extent that the Courts will not help those that break it.

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In questions of international law we should not depart from any settled decisions, nor lay down any doctrine inconsistent with them.

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The voluntary law of nations derives its force from the presumed consent of nations, the conventional from their express consent; the consuetudinary from their tacit consent.

— International law