2. Verb. (third-person singular of embargo) ¹
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Definition of Embargoes
1. embargo [v] - See also: embargo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embargoes
Literary usage of Embargoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Commercial Legislation Before 1789 by Albert Anthony Giesecke (1910)
"Purpose and Extent of embargoes. The direction of commerce by means of ...
Many of the earlier embargoes were imposed to prevent the exportation of ..."
2. The Law of Loss and Damage Claims: Including the Cummins Amendment, Bill of by Herbert Confield Lust (1919)
"embargoes. A great many claims for damages have arisen because of the failure of
a carrier to transport shipments owing to embargoes on connecting lines. ..."
3. The Enforcement of International Law Through Municipal Law in the United States by Quincy Wright (1916)
"COMMERCIAL embargoes Another class of acts which relates somewhat to the ...
Of somewhat different character are commercial embargoes,58 the most important ..."
4. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary by Joseph Story (1891)
"... OF FOREIGN TERRITORY — embargoes. § 1282. Bur the most remarkable powers,
which have been exercised by the government, as auxiliary and implied powers, ..."
5. Halleck's International Law: Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States by Henry Wager Halleck (1878)
"In maritime embargoes, persons as well as goods are usually seized and retained,
... The resort to reprisals, seizures, or embargoes, or forcible means of ..."
6. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1890)
"... the futility of embargoes and paper blockades appears plainly in the commercial
movement of the period of the Spanish and French wars.7 The demand for ..."
7. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre, Grover Gerhardt Huebner, David Scott Hanchet (1922)
"embargoes, 63. Tonnage duties, 63. Regulation and administration of ports, 64.
Summary of commercial legislation in the colonies, 65. ..."
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