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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In practice

A taking by way of reprisal; a taking or a reprisal of other goods, in lieu of those that were formerly token and eloigned or withholden.

2 Inst. 141.

A reciprocal distress, in lieu of a previous one which has bcen eloigned.

3 Bl. Comm. 148.