ABSTRACT
State practice is a broad and flexible term. It includes such matters as legislation enacted by national parliaments, instances on the practical enforcement of such legislation by national authorities, decisions of domestic courts, statements made by Government ministers and their legal advisers as to what they believe international law on a particular question to be, diplomatic correspondence between states, protest by states against the acts of other states that are considered to infringe international law, and so on. 2 State practice may also be considered to have a broader sense and includes treaties and collective state actions within international organizations. 3
