Reprisal
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The taking one thing m satisfaction for another: it is either ordinary, as arresting and taking the goods of merchant-strangers within the realm; or extraordinary, as satisfaction out of the realm, — and is under the great seal. {Lex Mercat.
120.) Wharton.