Plenipotentiary - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Plenipotentiary, a person who has full power and commission to do anything, generally used in connection with ambassadors and delegates of States on special occasions....
Chargeacute daffaires
A diplomatic representative or minister of an inferior grade accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another also a substitute ad interim for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary...
Plenipotentiary
A person invested with full power to transact any business especially an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court with full power to negotiate a treaty or to transact other business...
Letters 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 ...
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