FAMILY OF NATIONS
family of nations.Int’l law. The community of countries to which international law applies. •
This term is now obsolescent. It is increasingly rejected as Eurocentric.
“ ‘The family of nations’ is an aggregate of States which, as the result of their historical
antecedents, have inherited a common civilisation, and are at a similar level of moral and political
opinion.” Thomas E. Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence 396 (13th ed. 1924).[Blacks Law 8th]