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Home Dictionary Name: inroadDepredation
The act of depredating or the state of being depredated the act of despoiling or making inroads as the sea often makes depredation on the land...
In
A prefix from Eng prep in also from Lat prep in meaning in into on among as inbred inborn inroad incline inject intrude In words from the Latin in regularly becomes il before l ir before r and im before a labial as illusion irruption imblue immigrate impart In is sometimes used with an simple intensive force...
Inbreak
A breaking in inroad invasion...
Inroad
The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion raid encroachment...
Raid
A hostile or predatory incursion an inroad or incursion of mounted men a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force a foray...
Piracy
Piracy [fr. pirata, Lat.], the commission of those acts of robbery and violence upon the sea, which if committed upon land wold amount to felony. Pirates hold no commission or delegated authority from any sovereign or State, empowering them to attack others. They can, therefore, be only regarded in the light of robbers. They are, as Cicero has truly stated, the common enemies of all (communes hostes omnium); and the law of nations gives to every one the right to pursue and exterminate them without any previous declaration of war (see Piracy Jure Gentium, 1934, AC 586, where a frustrated attempt was held to be piracy by that law); but it is not allowed to kill them without trial, except in battle. Those who surrender or are taken prisoners must be brought before the proper magistrates, and dealt with according to law. By the ancient Common Law of England, piracy, if committed by a subject, was held to be a species of treason, being contrary to his natural allegiance; if by an alien, to ...
Runrig lands
Runrig lands. Lands in Scotland where the ridges of a field belong alternately to different proprietors. Anciently this kind of possession was advant-ageous in giving a united interest to tenants to resist inroads. By Act 1695, c. 23, a division of these lands was authorized, with the exception of lands belonging to corporations....
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