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Military law

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

Black's Law Dictionary

A system of regulations for the government of an army.

1 Kent, Comm. 341, note.

That branch of the laws which respects military discipline and the government of persons employed in the military service.

De Hart, Mil. Law, 16. State v. Rankin, 4 Cold. (Tenn.) 156; Johnson v. Jones, 44 111. 153, 92 Am. Dec. 159; In re Bogart, 3 Fed. Cas. 801; Neall v. U. S., 118 Fed. 704, 56 C. C. A. 31.