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Dictionary definition: high contracting parties
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high contracting parties
The representatives of states who have signed or ratified a
treaty
. From the point of view of international law it is immaterial where the treaty-making power resides (e.g. in a head of state, a senate, or a representative body): this is a question determinable by the constitutional law of the particular contracting state concerned. Other nations ...