by Amanda Perreau-Saussine, James B. Murphy
Some legal rules are not laid down by a legislator but grow instead from informal social practices. In contract law, for example, the customs of merchants are used by courts to interpret the provisions of business contracts; in tort law, customs of best practice are used by courts to define professional responsibility. Nowhere are customary rules of law more prominent than in international law. The customs defining the obligations of each State to other States and, to some extent, to its own cit
ISBN: 9781139463218
322 pages
Published: 2007-05-17
Publisher: Cambridge University Press