The Court further decided that, following Montenegro's declaration of independence in May 2006, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro's successor, was the only Respondent party in the case, but that " any responsibility for " past " events involved at the relevant time the composite State of Serbia and Montenegro ."
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The 17th-century Spanish jurist Juan de Sol�rzano Pereira identified the composite state as one whose components were " aeque principaliter " ( equally important ), as opposed to an " accessory " union, in which a newly acquired territory was subsumed under the laws of an already existing one, such as when New Spain was incorporated into the Crown of Castile, or when England.
