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Aide Memoire 7 (Second Report On The General Principles of Law)
Aide Memoire 7 (Second Report On The General Principles of Law)
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AIDE MEMOIRE
Executive Brief
Background
In the said reports, the Special Rapporteur proposed nine (9) draft
consolidated conclusions with commentaries with regards to the outcome of
the present topic. The seventh draft conclusion will be addressed in this
memoire.
Draft Conclusion 7
Identification of general principles of law formed within the
international legal system
Another example of the first form are the principles embodied in the
Martens clause, which appeared for the first time in the preambles of the 1899
Hague Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land
and the 1907 Hague Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of
War on Land.
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