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Updated: May 28, 2025

Now where there is no constituted judge, as between independent states there is not, the vicinage itself is the natural judge. It is, preventively, the assertor of its own rights, or, remedially, their avenger. Neighbors are presumed to take cognizance of each other's acts. "Vicini vicinorum facta præsumuntur seire."

Edmund Burke - The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)