belligerent communities, recognition of
The formal acknowledgment by a state of the existence of a civil war between another state’s central government and the peoples of an area within its territorial boundaries. Such recognition brings about the conventional operation of the rules of war, in particular those humanitarian restraints upon the combatants introduced by the international law of armed force. Another result of recognition of belligerency is that both the rebels and the parent central government are entitled to exercise belligerent rights and are subject to the obligations imposed on belligerents. Following recognition, third states have the rights and obligations of neutrality. Compare insurgency.

• City of London
• civil contingencies
• civil court
• civil injunction
• civil law
• civil liability contribution
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• civil partnership
• Civil Procedure Rules
• civil remedy
• Civil Service
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• civil wrong
• claim
• claimant
• claim form
• claim of privilege
• Claim Production Centre
• class gift
• classical school of criminology
• classification of animals
• class rights
• clause
• clean break
• clean hands