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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
war. A granted by the government private individual, to take perty of a foreign state, citizens or subjects of such a reparation for an injury by such state, its citizens jects. By the constitution, s.
8, cl.
11, congress have ira letters of marque and ide Chit. Law of Nat. Com. 251; Vin. Ab. N a; Com. Dig. Prerogative, Molloy, B. 1, c.
2, s. 10; des. 440; 5 Rob. Rep. 360; 2 Rob. Rep. 224. Reprisal.