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Home Dictionary Name: marqueLetters of marque
Letters of marque, commissions for extraordinary reprisals for reparation to merchants taken and despoiled by strangers at sea, grantable by the Secretaries of State, with the approbation of the Sovereign and Council; and usually in time of war, etc., ex Merc. 173. The words marque and reprisal are used as synonymous terms, although the latter is, strictly, taking in return; the former passing the frontiers in order to such taking, Du Cange, tit. 'Marcha.'These letters are grantable by the law of nations, wherever the subjects of one state are oppressed and injured by those of another, and justice is denied by that state to which the oppressor belongs. In this case letters of marque and reprisal may be obtained in order to seize the bodies or goods of the subjects of the offending state, until satisfaction be made, wherever they happen to be found; and, in fact, this custom seems dictated by nature. The necessity, however, is obvious of calling in the sovereign power to determine when ...
Law of marque
Law of marque, means a rule of reprisal allowing one who has been wronged but cannot obtain justice to take the goods of the wrongdoer found within the wronged person's precinct, in satisfaction of the wrong, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 893.Law of Marque. See LETTERS OF MARQUE....
letter of marque
letter of marque see letter ...
Marque, law of
Marque, law of, a reprisal entitling one who has been wronged and is unable to receive ordinary justice to take the goods of the wrongdoer (if they can be found within one's own precinct) in satisfaction for the wrong, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 986....
letter
letter 1 : a direct written statement addressed to an individual or organization ;broadly : an official communication see also counterletter determination letter : a letter from an administrative agency (as the Internal Revenue Service) usually in response to a request in which a determination, decision, or ruling (as whether an organization qualifies as charitable) is made information letter : a letter from an administrative agency usually in response to a request that provides information and esp. that simply calls attention to an interpretation or principle of law letter of intent : a letter in which the intention to enter into a formal agreement (as a contract) or to take some specified action is stated letter ro·ga·to·ry [-rō-gə-tȯr-ē] [probably partial translation of Medieval Latin littera rogatoria letter of request] : a formal written request by a court to a court in a foreign jurisdiction to summon and examine a witness in accordance...
Privateer
An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy See Letters of marque under Marque...
Mark
A license of reprisals See Marque...
Marque
A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction or boundary of a country for the purpose of making reprisals...
Capture
Capture, the arrest or seizure of a person or thing, particularly applied to the seizure of ships by an enemy in time of war. On 16th April, 1856, a treaty or declaration was signed at Paris between the powers of Great Britain, Austria, France, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey, by which privateering is abolished, so far as those powers are concerned. See LETTERS OF MARQUE, PRIZE OF WAR.Capture, is a taking by an enemy as prize in time of war with intent to deprive the owner of all property in the thing taken, Andersen v. Marten, (1908) AC 334 (HL)....
Declaration of Paris
Declaration of Paris, a state paper agreed upon at the conclusion of the Crimean War, by the representatives of Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey (February 26, 1856), in which the following agreements on maritime law were come to:--Privateering is abolished.The neutral flag covers enemy's goods save contraband of war.Neutral goods save contraband of war are not liable to capture under enemy's flag. Blockades to be binding must be real. (See also LETTERS OF MARQUE and PAPER BLOCKADES.)...
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