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Filibuster

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A lawless military adventurer especially one in quest of plunder a freebooter originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851 and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua in 1855

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