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reprisal
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Reprisal
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Reprises
Reprises, deduction and payments out of a manor or lands, as rent-charges, annuities.
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Reprisal
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Reprise
To take again to retake
Reprizes
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Reprize
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letter
ship to plunder the enemy usually used in pl. often used in the phrase letters of marque and reprisal [the Congress shall have power…to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures
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
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
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