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Definition of Ransom money
1. Noun. Money demanded for the return of a captured person.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ransom Money
Literary usage of Ransom money
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... and detained the masters for ransom ; she had 2000^. on board when taken, and
18 masters of ships for the ransom money for the ships he had let goe. ..."
2. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"First decree against a ransomed ship for non-payment of the ransom money, at the
instance of her master, who was detained by the captor as a hostage.— A dm. ..."
3. Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising by United States Attorney-General (1869)
"The flag officer, fleet captain, and divisional commanders of a fleet, are
respectively entitled to the same interest in ransom money, salvage, ..."
4. Narrative of the Expedition to China, from the Commencement of the War to by John Elliot Bingham (1843)
"... Behaviour—Mr. Berkeley wounded— Troops withdraw from the Heights—Ransom paid—
Return to the Typa—List of Killed and Wounded— Table of Ransom-money. ..."
5. Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843: And by William Dallas Bernard, William Hutcheon Hall (1844)
"... to restore the forts— Our troops re-embark on the 1st of June—Observations on
the truce—The ransom-money a droit of the crown—Opinion of Vatel. ..."
6. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1877)
"temple of Poseidon,' being evidently a stone circle ; also a description in the
Shield of Achilles, where there is an assembly, and a case of ransom money ..."
7. The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the ...by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1835)
"The ransom-money must be raised out of the profits, notwithstanding any former
mortgage of the ship; for if there was a precedent mortgage, ..."
8. Four Years in Ashantee by Friedrich August Ramseyer, Johannes Kühne, Theodor Christlieb (1875)
"... TRANSACTIONS ABOUT THE ransom money. THE close of the year 1871, found us in
no small commotion, for though it was Sunday, yet Caesar, who had hitherto ..."
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