Belligerent

belligerent 1 : waging war : carrying on war ;specif : belonging to or recognized as an organized military power protected by and subject to the laws of war 2 : inclined to or exhibiting hostility or a combative temperament n : a belligerent nation, state, or person ...

belligerency

belligerency : the state of being at war or in conflict ;specif : the status whereby a recognized military force is granted the protection of the international laws of war ...

Belligerence

The quality of being belligerent...

Belligerently

In a belligerent manner hostilely...

Belligerent

Belligerent. A nation or party of persons waging regular war as recognized by the Law of Nations.A country involved in war or other hostile action; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....

Anti-manifesto

Anti-manifesto, the declaration of a belligerent, as a reply to the manifesto of the other belligerent, showing that the war, as far as he is concerned, is defensive....

Contraband

Contraband [fr. Contra, Lat., against; and bando, Ital., edict], such goods as are prohibited to be imported or exported, bought or sold, either by the laws of a particular state or by special treaties; also a term applied to designate that class of commodities which neutrals are not allowed to carry during war to a belligerent power.It is a recognized general principle of the law of nations, that ships may sail to and trade with all kingdoms, countries, and states in peace with the princes or authorities whose flags they bear; and that they are not to be molested by the ships of any other power at war with the country with which they are trading, unless they engage in the conveyance of contraband goods. But great difficulty has arisen in deciding as to the goods comprised in this term.In order to obviate all disputes as to what commodities should be deemed contraband, they have sometimes been specified in treaties or conventions. But this classification is not always respected during ...

Maritime law

Maritime law, the law relating to harbours, ships, and seamen. An important branch of the commercial law of maritime nations; divided into a variety of departments, such as those about harbours, property of ships, duties and rights of masters and seamen, contracts of affreightment, average salvage, etc. No system or code of maritime law has ever been issued by authority in Great Britain. The laws and practices that now obtain amongst us have been founded on the practice of merchants, the principles of the Civil Law, the laws of Oleron and Wisby the works of juris-consults, the judicial decisions of our own and foreign countries, etc. though still susceptible of amendment, our system corresponds more nearly than any other system of maritime law with those universally recognised principles of justice and general convenience on which merchants and navigators should act.The decisions of Lord Mansfield did much to fix the principles and to improve and perfect the maritime law of England. It...

insurgency

insurgency pl: -cies : the quality or state of being insurgent ;specif : a condition of revolt against a recognized government that does not reach the proportions of an organized revolutionary government and is not recognized as belligerency ...

insurgent

insurgent 1 : a person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government ;esp : one not recognized as a belligerent 2 : one that acts contrary to the established leadership (as of a political party, union, or corporation) or its decisions and policies adj : rising in opposition to civil or political authority or against an established government ...

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