Aliens {alien, Roman law} were hostile {hostes} or friendly {peregrini}. Clientes were under patrician's legal protection. Praetors used ius gentium in cases involving aliens, because it was universal law. Romans used laws of country from which people came, not laws of country where crime was.
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