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Reprises, deduction and payments out of a manor or lands, as rent-charges, annuities....
Reprisal
Reprisal, the taking one thing in satisfaction for another. Reprisals are used between nation and nation, in order to do themselves justice, when they cannot otherwise obtain it. If a nation has taken possession of what belongs to another-if she refuses to pay a debt, to repair an injury, or to give adequate satisfaction for it-the latter seizes something belonging to the former, and applies it to her own advantage, unless she obtains payment of what is due to her, together with interest and damages, or may keep it as a pledge until she has received ample satisfaction. For the latter it is rather a stoppage or a seizure than reprisals, but they are frequently confounded in common language, Vattel, by Chit. 283. Reprisals are either ordinary, as arresting and taking the goods of merchant-strangers within the realm, or extra-ordinary, as satisfaction out of the realm, and are under the Great Seal, Lex Mercat. 120. See also RECAPTION; CAPIAS IN WITHERNAM; LETTERS OF MARQUE.The use of forc...
reprisal
reprisal [Anglo-French reprisaile reprisaille, from Middle French, from Old Italian ripresaglia, from ripreso, past participle of riprendere to take back, from ri- back + prendere to take, from Latin prehendere] 1 a : the act or practice in international law of resorting to force short of war in retaliation for damage or loss suffered b : an instance of such action 2 : a retaliatory act [may not fire a complaining employee in ] ...
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 ...
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...
Reprize
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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....
Mark
Mark [fr. marc, Welsh; mearc, Sax.; merche, Dut.; marque, Fr.], a token; an impression; a proof; an evidence; licence of reprisals; also, formerly, a coin of the value of 13s. 4d.In commerce, a certain character struck or impressed on various kind of commodities, either to show the place where they were made, and the person who made them, or to witness that they have been viewed and examined by the officers charged with the inspection of manufacturers; or to show that the duties imposed thereon have been paid. It is also used to indicate the price of a commodity. If one use the mark of another to do him damage, an action on the case will lie, and an injunction may be obtained. See TRADE MARKS.Those who are unable to write, sign a cross, for their mark, when they execute any document. See MARKSMAN.It includes a device, brand, heading, label, ticket, name, signature, word, letter, numeral shape of goods, packaging or combination of colours or any combination thereof. [Trade Marks Act, 19...
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....
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 them, then, upon plaint being levied in the County court by the plaintiff, the plaintiff might issue this writ directing the sheriff to take goods or cattle of the defendant, to the value of those taken by him, and deliver them to the plaintiff, who gave a bond with sureties, conditioned to prosecute his suit and to return the goods, etc., so to be delivered to him, if a return of them should be afterwards adjudged. Goods taken in withernam could not be replevied till the original distress was forthcoming.Also, after verdict and judgment for defendant in replevin, and the usual writ of execution de retorno habendo had been sued out, to which the sheriff had returned that the goods, etc., were concealed or eloigned, i.e., conveyed to places unknown to him, so that he could not execute the writ, the defendant might then sue out a api...
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