The statute grants American district courts jurisdiction over “any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or of a treaty of the United States”.

该法准许美国地区法院受理“外籍人士提出的任何违反美国法律或者条约（仅限侵权行为)相关的民事诉讼”。

Besides the law of nations relating to all societies, there is a polity or civil constitution for each particularly considered. No society can subsist without a form of government.

除了与所有的社会形态相关的 国际公法 之外，每一种形态的社会都有它的政治法 。一个社会如果没有政府将无法生存。

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. From this and the preceding principle all those rules are derived which constitute the law of nations.

战争的目的是胜利。胜利的宗旨是征服。征服的主旨是保全。在此项原则和前一项原则之中必然能推导出构成 国际公法 的所有规则。