family of nations

family of nations. Int’l law. The community of countries to which international law applies. • This term is now obsolescent. It is increasingly rejected as Eurocentric.

“ ‘The family of nations’ is an aggregate of States which, as the result of their historical antecedents, have inherited a common civilisation, and are at a similar level of moral and political opinion.” Thomas E. Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence 396 (13th ed. 1924).

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译者David，毕业于亚洲顶尖的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与复杂商业诉讼相关的法律文件。