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customary international law |
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General practices (also known as international customary law or general international customary law) which have grown up among states and which have become accepted as law - and hence as binding on all states. Thus, mere usage is insufficient to translate a custom into law; the belief must also have developed that that usage has legal status. This last aspect of the matter is often referred to as opinio iuris sive necessitatis (or, for short, opinio iuris). Custom is one of the two main sources of international law (the other being treaties), and in historical and jurisprudential terms it is the more fundamental of the two. In quantitative terms, however, treaties have in recent times come to overshadow custom as a source of international law. See also special customary international law. |
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