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International Public Law (Cox) – Terms
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Acquiesce - ✔✔a person's or state's tacit or passive acceptance; imply consent
to an act.
Comity - ✔✔a practice amongst political entities involving especially recognition
of executive, legislative and judicial acts.
Accretion - ✔✔the gradual accumulation of land by natural sources. (Ie.
Seashore is pushed due to the ocean's wave.)(Ie. Rio Grande Case)
Succession - ✔✔the act or right, of legally or officially taking over a prodessor's
rank, duty or office. The aqucisiont of rights or property by inheritance under
the appropriate laws. Succession is also the right by which one group in
replacing another group acquires all the goods movable or immovable and other
chattels of a state or corporation. All deemed perpetual.
Adjudication - ✔✔-legal process of resolving a dispute; the process of judicially
deciding a case.
-title disputes to state territory are often examined by judges and arbitrators
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,Treaty - ✔✔-an international agreement concluded between states in written
from and governed by international law. Wether embodied in a single
instrument or in two or more instruments and whatever it's particular
designation
-called to change as it is not enforced by the so-called "international law." It is
simply, "a snapshot of the attitudes of two or more states at the time the treaty
was signed" (Ie. NAFTA is enforced, but any states can put an end to the
agreement)
Counter Claim - ✔✔when one sues another, and the former sues back as he/she
has a potential counter argument.
Appeal - ✔✔when one asks a judge (from an appeal court) to look at the first
decision rendered and tries to overturn so the appeal results in the appeal
court's own decision. (Does not submit new evidences. All that is done, is to
claim that the original judge, did not understand/lack interpretation or
rendered an unfair decision)
Judicial Review - ✔✔It is the review of another judge who renders a manifestly
unreasonable decisions (Ie. "A Judge decides to flip a coin to decide the faith of
the case."). If the Judicial is ruled in favour of the one asking, the case goes back
to square one as the case is still in dispute.
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, OR
Mediation, inquiry and conciliation → When a judge reviews the decision
rendered my a mediator, inquirer or conciliator (As none of these professionals
are not judges)
Exchange of Instruments - ✔✔the parties wishes in an agreement by the
exchange of documents expressing their wishes.
Obligation - ✔✔-a legal or moral duty to do or not to do something that may
refer to a [state] is bound to do.
-a formal binding agreement or acknowledgement of a liability to pay a certain
amount or do a certain thing.
Contract - ✔✔an agreement between two or more parties creating obligations
that are enforceable or otherwise recognizable by law.
Binding - ✔✔to impose, to legally obligate one or more obligations or duties on
a person, institution or state.
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International Public Law (Cox) – Terms
Exam Q&A 100% Solved
Acquiesce - ✔✔a person's or state's tacit or passive acceptance; imply consent
to an act.
Comity - ✔✔a practice amongst political entities involving especially recognition
of executive, legislative and judicial acts.
Accretion - ✔✔the gradual accumulation of land by natural sources. (Ie.
Seashore is pushed due to the ocean's wave.)(Ie. Rio Grande Case)
Succession - ✔✔the act or right, of legally or officially taking over a prodessor's
rank, duty or office. The aqucisiont of rights or property by inheritance under
the appropriate laws. Succession is also the right by which one group in
replacing another group acquires all the goods movable or immovable and other
chattels of a state or corporation. All deemed perpetual.
Adjudication - ✔✔-legal process of resolving a dispute; the process of judicially
deciding a case.
-title disputes to state territory are often examined by judges and arbitrators
1|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
,Treaty - ✔✔-an international agreement concluded between states in written
from and governed by international law. Wether embodied in a single
instrument or in two or more instruments and whatever it's particular
designation
-called to change as it is not enforced by the so-called "international law." It is
simply, "a snapshot of the attitudes of two or more states at the time the treaty
was signed" (Ie. NAFTA is enforced, but any states can put an end to the
agreement)
Counter Claim - ✔✔when one sues another, and the former sues back as he/she
has a potential counter argument.
Appeal - ✔✔when one asks a judge (from an appeal court) to look at the first
decision rendered and tries to overturn so the appeal results in the appeal
court's own decision. (Does not submit new evidences. All that is done, is to
claim that the original judge, did not understand/lack interpretation or
rendered an unfair decision)
Judicial Review - ✔✔It is the review of another judge who renders a manifestly
unreasonable decisions (Ie. "A Judge decides to flip a coin to decide the faith of
the case."). If the Judicial is ruled in favour of the one asking, the case goes back
to square one as the case is still in dispute.
2|Page
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, OR
Mediation, inquiry and conciliation → When a judge reviews the decision
rendered my a mediator, inquirer or conciliator (As none of these professionals
are not judges)
Exchange of Instruments - ✔✔the parties wishes in an agreement by the
exchange of documents expressing their wishes.
Obligation - ✔✔-a legal or moral duty to do or not to do something that may
refer to a [state] is bound to do.
-a formal binding agreement or acknowledgement of a liability to pay a certain
amount or do a certain thing.
Contract - ✔✔an agreement between two or more parties creating obligations
that are enforceable or otherwise recognizable by law.
Binding - ✔✔to impose, to legally obligate one or more obligations or duties on
a person, institution or state.
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