Embargo
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A proclamation or order of state, usually issued in time of war or threatened hostilities, prohibiting the departure of ships or goods from some or all the ports of such state until further order.
2 Wheat. 148.
Embargo is the hindering or detention by any government of ships of commerce in its ports. If the embargo is luid upon ships belonging to citizens of the state imposing it, itis called a “civil embargo;” if, as more commonly happeus, it is laid upon ships belonging to the enemy, it is culled a “hostile embargo.” The effect of this laiter embargo is that the vessels detained are restured to the rightful owners if no war follows, but are forfeited to tha embargoing government if war does follow, the declaration of war being held to relate back to the original seizureand detention. Brown. The temporary or permanent sequestration of the property of individuals for the purposes imbursed for this forced service.
Man. Int. Law, 143.