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Casus Belli

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CASUS BELLI, an act or omission which, if not rectified, may justly be remedied by war. Interference with the full ex ercise of a nation's rights or independence, an affront to its dig nity, an unredressed injury, are instances of cases belli. (See ARBITRATION.)