Society, Politics & Law
The use of force in international law
...cast in form of a lawsuit, in which the verdict transmitted by the fetials was meant to decide on the question whether the war could be rightly waged. Whether or not a war should be waged (to enforce a verdict) would then be the matter for a new decision, to be rendered by the king, the senate, or even (in later periods) the entire people. (Reichberg et al., 2006, pp....