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JUS BELLI Definition & Legal Meaning

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The law of war. The law of nations as applied to a state of war, defining in particular the rights and duties of the belligerent powers themselves, and of neutral nations. The right of war; that which may be done without injustice with regard to an enemy. Gro. de Jure B. lib. 1, c. 1,

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