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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 ] ...
Reprises
Reprises, deduction and payments out of a manor or lands, as rent-charges, annuities....
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...
coercion
coercion : the use of express or implied threats of violence or reprisal (as discharge from employment) or other intimidating behavior that puts a person in immediate fear of the consequences in order to compel that person to act against his or her will ;also : the defense that one acted under coercion see also defense, duress compare undue influence ...
special counsel
special counsel : counsel appointed to fill a particular need ;specif cap : a government official charged with protecting employees from illegal practices by employers and esp. from employer reprisal for whistleblowing ...
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...
Recaption
The act of retaking as of one who has escaped after arrest reprisal the retaking of ones own goods chattels wife or children without force or violence from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them...
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