Capitulation
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The treaty which determines the conditions under which a fortified place or army in the field is abandoned to the commanding officer of the opposing army. On surrender by capitulation, all the property of the inhabitants protected by the articles is considered by the law of nations as neutral, and not subject to capture on the high seas by the belligerent or its ally; Miller v. The Resolution, 2 Dall. (U. S.) 8, 1 L. Ed. 263.
Capitulations.
The name used for treaty engagements between the Turkish government and the principal states of Europe by which subjects of the latter, residents in the territory of the former, were exempt from the laws of the places where they dwelt.
1 Kinglake, Invasion of Crimea 116. CAPITULA.
Collections of laws and ordinances drawn up under heads of divisions. The Capitularies of Charlemagne and of other Frankish kings, and of the Lombard princes, are well known. The term is used also of the head divisions of the canon law. The chapter of a cathedral.
CAPITULARY.
In French law. A collection and code of the laws and ordinances promulgated by the kings of the Merovingian and Carlovingian dynasties.