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International Law - ✔✔Body of rules and principles which are binding
upon states in their relations with one another.
Public international law - ✔✔Defined as: The rules which govern the
following relations:
Between sovereign independent states.
Between sovereign independent states and organisations made up of
states.
Between organisations made up of states.
Treaty - ✔✔An international agreement concluded between states in
written form and governed by international law, whether embodies in a
single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its
particular designation. Or;
A treaty is an agreement, whether written or oral, concluded between public
international law subjects with the intention of creating a public international
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law relationship. The agreement must give rise to reciprocal rights and
duties and must be governed by public international law.
Ways of concluding a treaty - ✔✔* Exchange of instruments
* Ratification
* Acceptance
* Approval
* Accession
* By any other means so agreed
Void Treaties: VC Art 48 - Error - ✔✔A state may invoke error it is
assumed the following: A fact or situation (which was) material (and)
formed on the basis of consent when the treaty was concluded and it did
not itself contribute to the error; or the circumstances were not suspicious.
Void Treaties: VC Art 49 - Fraud - ✔✔A state may invoke fraud if: It was
induced by fraudulent action of other negotiating states to conclude the
treaty.
Void Treaties: VC Art 50 - Corruption - ✔✔A state may invoke corruption
of there was: Direct or indirect corruption (of) the state's representative (by)
another negotiating state.