Jus gentium

As a jus gentium, Latin for " law of nations ," the provisions were in Roman law referred to, which governed the handling of foreigners. In contrast, stood jus civile, which was considered a national law for the members of the Roman Empire with civil rights.

In the current legal parlance, the term jus gentium stands for those principles and standards in private law and public law, which are the legal systems of all nations together and are therefore referred to as the " right of all people " or as peoples common law. In part, the term jus gentium is used because of its linguistic meaning as a synonym for international law, even if it primarily governs relations between states. As jus civile civil law of a particular country is called contrast, nowadays, which consists mainly codified as positive law in the form of national laws.

A demarcation of jus gentium of the jus naturale as signified natural law is possible on the views of the Church Teacher Aurelius Augustine and the Roman jurist Ulpian. According to Augustine, the jus gentium is to be understood as the right of all rational beings. This rational beings can come through the right use of their reason of such right. Natural law, however, according to Ulpian belongs not only to the human race, but to all living beings.

• Roman law
• International law
• Legal language
• History of Political Ideas ( Ancient )