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Definition of Letter of mark and reprisal
1. Noun. A license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Letter Of Mark And Reprisal
Literary usage of Letter of mark and reprisal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recent Centralizing Tendencies in State Educational Administration by William Clarence Webster (1896)
"times printed in full, "letter of mark and reprisal," and sometimes called "
letter of reprisal" or " letter of mark " for short; and that it has come to ..."
2. The Abolition of Privateering and the Declaration of Paris by Francis Raymond Stark (1897)
"times printed in full, "letter of mark and reprisal," and sometimes called "letter
of reprisal" or "letter of mark" for short; and that it has come to cover ..."
3. A View of South-America and Mexico: Comprising Their History, the Political by John Milton Niles (1825)
"... to return them to the government within a specified time, and that in future
no letter of mark and reprisal would he granted without first publishing ..."
4. Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Massachusetts (1893)
"For every Commission of a Letter of Mark and Reprisal, Twenty four shillings.
For every Act of naturalization of a foreigner, otherwise than a Husbandman, ..."