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Reprisal
Reprisal, the taking one thing in satisfaction for another. Reprisals are used between nation and nation, in order to
reprisal
reprisal [Anglo-French reprisaile reprisaille, from Middle French, from Old Italian ripresaglia, from ripreso, past participle of riprendere to take
Reprises
Reprises, deduction and payments out of a manor or lands, as rent-charges, annuities.
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Reprisal
The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity
Reprizes
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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
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
Capias in withernam
Capias in withernam (that you take by way of reprisals). If the goods before an action of replevin had been concealed, so that the sheriff could not replevy
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