Note 106 — Chapter V · THE STATE.
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In international law, therefore, the word state commonly means an independent state. This is a convenient place in which to call attention to the variety of allied meanings possessed by the term state. They are the following:
(a)
A political society dependent or independent.
(b)
An independent political society.
(c)
The government of a political society.
(d)
The territory of a political society.
Except where the context shows that it is not so, we shall use the term in the first of these senses.