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Impressing men
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Pressing Seamen
Pressing Seamen. See IMPRESSING MEN.
Impressment
on equitable grounds. (3) Archaic. The method by which armed forces were formely expanded, when so-called press-gangs seized men off the streets and forced them to join the army or navy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. … Impressment, means (1) The act of forcibly taking for public service. (2) A court's imposition of a constructive trust
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