Roger Pinto, M. Keywords: Prescription | Public international law | Mots clefs: Prescription | Droit international public | ABSTRACT The prescription is not a revolutionary institution, writes Roger Pinto in the introduction to his course, but a principle of conservation. It will not be surprising, he continues, that the authors of the explanatory memorandum to the title of the prescription in the French Civil Code report the prescription "of all the institutions of civil law, the most necessary to the social orde…