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CASUS BELLI

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 487 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELLI , the technical See also:term for cases in which a See also:state holds itself justified in making See also:war, if a certain course to which it See also:objects is persisted in. Interference with the full exercise of a nation's rights or See also:independence, an affront to its dignity, an unredressed injury, are instances of cases belli. Most of the new compulsory See also:treaties of See also:arbitration entered into by See also:Great See also:Britain and other states exclude from their application cases affecting the " vital interests " or " See also:national See also:honour of the contracting states. These may therefore be considered as a sort of See also:definition of cases belli in so far as the high contracting parties to them are concerned.

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