Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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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).