{"id":10626,"date":"2017-12-11T02:17:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T02:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10626"},"modified":"2017-12-11T02:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T02:35:05","slug":"general-principle-of-law-a-principle-recognized-in-all-kinds-of-legal-relations-regardless-of-the-legal-system-to-which-it-belongs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10626","title":{"rendered":"General Principle of Law – a principle recognized in all kinds of legal relations, regardless of the legal system to which it belongs, or the fundamental tenets of an individual law system"},"content":{"rendered":"

principle<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span>
\nn<\/em>. (14c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A basic rule, law, or doctrine, especially, one of the fundamental tents of a system.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

general principle of law<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(18c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A principles\u00a0 widely recognized by peoples whose legal order has attained a certain level of sophistication.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Int’l law.\u00a0 <\/em>A principle that gives rise to international legal obligations.<\/strong> [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from Hermann Mosler’s “General Principles of Law” within Encyclopedia of Public International Law<\/em><\/a> (1995):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “The adjective ‘general’ does not refer to several or many orders [i.e., legal systems] as do the general principles of national law, but indicates principles which are applied generally in all cases of the same kind which arise in international law (e.g. the principle of nonintervetnion).<\/span>“<\/strong> [4]<\/span><\/p>\n

3. A principle recognized in all kinds of legal relations, regardless of the legal system to which it belongs (state law, federal law, international law, etc.).<\/strong> \u2014 aka general legal principle<\/strong><\/span>. <\/em>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>Deluxe<\/b><\/span><\/em> Tenth<\/b><\/span><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>by<\/b><\/span><\/strong> Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2<\/span><\/strong>]: Hermann Mosler, “General Principles of Law,” in 2 Encyclopedia of Public International Law <\/em><\/a>512, 512 (1995).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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