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Erga omnes is a Latin phrase which means "towards all" or "towards everyone". For instance, a property right is an erga omnes entitlement and therefore enforceable against anybody infringing that right. An erga omnes right can be distinguished from a right based on contract, which is unenforceable except against the contracting party.
The topic of state responsibility was one of the first 14 areas provisionally selected for the ILC's attention in 1949. [7] When the ILC listed the topic for codification in 1953, "state responsibility" was distinguished from a separate topic on the "treatment of aliens", reflecting the growing view that state responsibility encompasses the breach of an international obligation.
The International Court of Justice Statute defines customary international law in Article 38(1)(b) as "a general practice accepted as law". [9] This is generally determined through two factors: the general practice of states, and what states have accepted as law (opinio juris sive necessitatis). [10]
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.
Universal jurisdiction is a legal principle that allows states or international organizations to prosecute individuals for serious crimes, such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, regardless of where the crime was committed and irrespective of the accused's nationality or residence.
Countermeasure in public international law refers to reprisals [a] not involving the use of force. In other words, it refers to non-violent acts which are illegal in themselves, but become legal when executed by one state in response to the commission of an earlier internationally wrongful act by another state in order to induce that state to comply with its legal obligations.
If there is a difference between erga omnes and in rem, it may be only in international law. USLegal (for what it may be worth) has: Erga omnes means in relation to all. The term is used to describe legal obligations and rights towards all. Erga omnes is used in property law. The right against trespass of a property can be enforced as against ...
Parties include:· plaintiff (person filing suit),; defendant (person sued or charged with a crime),; petitioner (files a petition asking for a court ruling),; respondent (usually in opposition to a petition or an appeal),