Jus Gentium
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Institutes of Roman Law
Body of law common to peoples, developed through Rome's contact with foreigners.
The Jus Gentium tended, therefore, to be identified with the Jus Naturale;
The legal consequence of contact with foreign races is summed up in the phrase Jus Gentium.
Yet even into these provinces jus gentium forced a partial entrance.
Ancient Law
The Roman category of law held common to all nations, originally developed to govern disputes involving foreigners.
The Jus Naturale, or Law of Nature, is simply the Jus Gentium or Law of Nations seen in the light of a peculiar theory.
” The neglect of demarcations and boundaries seems to me, therefore, the feature of the Jus Gentium which was depicted in Æquitas.
The circumstances of the origin of the Jus Gentium are probably a sufficient safeguard against the mistake of supposing that the Roman lawyers had any special respect for it.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
A supposed generalization of the usages of a great part of mankind, once associated with the Praetor's Edict.
At an earlier stage of legal opinion the Prætor’s Edict was thought to embody the Jus Gentium, a supposed generalisation of the usages of a great part of mankind.