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Excerpt from Principles of the Law of Nations: With Practical Notes and Supplementary Essays on the Law
VI. The law of nations originates in the will Of nations; its authority is their consent, and its evidence is, their practice and conventions. Practice evidences what is called the customary law Of nations, and conventions the conventional law Of nations.
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