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Definition of Safe-conduct
1. Noun. A document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war.
Definition of Safe-conduct
1. Noun. A document that grants safe passage through enemy territory in times of war. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Safe-conduct
Literary usage of Safe-conduct
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)
"A safe-conduct is given to those who otherwise could not safely pass through the
places ... The person named in the safe-conduct cannot transfer his \ J67. ..."
2. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"JS REEVES SAFE CONDUCT FOR ENEMY DIPLOMATIC AGENTS ON September 8, 1915, the
Secretary of State requested the recall of the Austrian ..."
3. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1852)
"As the right arising from a safe-conduct proceeds entirely \ 269. How by which
the extent of the right is to be measured ; and the ..."
4. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"He added that he could not be imprisoned because he had a safe-conduct. John of
Chlum and some friends accompanied him to the palace occupied by the pope. ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Accordingly he called his clerk, and while the safe-conduct was being read, ...
At last they gave up the attempt, threw my safe- conduct on the ground, ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1866)
"The safe conduct of the President of the United States has been tendered us, ...
We respectfully solicit, through your intervention, a safe conduct to ..."
7. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1852)
"How jjy which the extent of the right is to be measured ; and the ' e- w'^ *s
discoverable in the object for which the safe-conduct - rived from was granted ..."
8. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"Would that it was the papists alone that would be guilty of my blood J" CHAPTER V.
Shall Luther have a safe-conduct—The safe-conduct—Will ..."
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