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Definition of Reprisals
1. reprisal [n] - See also: reprisal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reprisals
Literary usage of Reprisals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"England having, in 1662, granted reprisals against the United Provinces in favour
of the knights of Malta,* the state» of Holland asserted, with good reason ..."
2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"The rule that anything and everything belonging to the delinquent State may be
made the object of reprisals has, however, exceptions; for instance, ..."
3. The Law of Nations Considered as Independent Political Communities: On the by Travers Twiss (1875)
"A more substantial and less technical division of reprisals is that which is ...
reprisals are Special, when a Sovereign Prince grants Letters of reprisals ..."
4. The Law of Nations Considered as Independent Political Communities by Travers Twiss (1875)
"A more substantial and less technical division of reprisals is that which is ...
reprisals are Special, when a Sovereign Prince grants Letters of reprisals ..."
5. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"By making reprisals upon the persons and things belonging to the offending ...
reprisals. This last seems to extend to every species of forcible means for ..."
6. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1852)
"(135) ^135^ We may make reprisals against a nation not only for the ? sa. ...
But to grant reprisals against a nation in favour of fo- § 348. ..."
7. Military Manners and Customs by James Anson Farrer (1885)
"International law on legitimate reprisals—The Brussels Conference on the
subject—Illustrations of barbarous reprisals—Instances of non- retaliation—Savage ..."
8. Commentaries on the Law of Nations by William Oake Manning (1839)
"(1) reprisals reprisals constitute a method whereby a nation obtains allowed to
a justice for its injured subjects, when such justice cannot third party. be ..."
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