- Foreign relations law — Responsibility of states — Remedies — Reparations
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1 In general public international law, the term ‘satisfaction’ describes a particular form of reparation in the law of State responsibility . This particular reparation is deemed to repair immaterial damages—as opposed to material damages—caused by an internationally wrongful act, since ‘full reparation’ is a principle that has long been recognized. 2 Full reparation was described in the following terms by the Permanent Court of International Justice in the case concerning the Factory at Chorzow: The essential principle contained in the actual notion of an illegal...