definition of war under international law
English and American cases dealing with the insurance meaning of war have defined it in accordance with the ancient international law definition: war refers to and includes only hostilities carried on by entities that constitute governments at least de facto in character..here is no such context in the policy now under consideration. I can see no good reason for giving to the word war a meaning which excludes one type of war.. The right of making war belongs to nations only as a remedy against injustice. It is the offspring of unhappy necessity.