The Part Taken by Courts of Justice in the Development of International Law: Inaugural Address Delivered by Simeon E. Baldwin, LL. D. , As President of the International Law Association, at Its Conference at Rouen, August 21, 1900 (Classic Reprint)

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It was fortunate that the Civil law could supply a term so elastic, and perhaps ambiguous, as that Of jus gentium. The most critical of modern scholars cannot deny that the Romans Often referred to it as a rule in matters of international Obliga tion,7 though it is no less certain that they viewed it as of narrow application in this respect, and that it is the moderns rather than the ancients that have given it a philosophical basis in moral and religious principles of action.8 Nor, at its best, as Grotius fully recognized, was it more than a scanty and fragmentary collection. If the new system was to extend far.

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