Retaliation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In International law. A term including both reprisal and retorsion (q. V.) RETALLIA (Law Lat.; from Law Pr. retainer, to cut again). In old En^ish law. Retail; the cutting up again, or division of a commodity into smaller parts. Nee in grosso, nee ad retal Ham, neither in gross (by wholesale), nor at retail.
Reg. Orig. 184.
RETARE (Law Lat.) In old English law. To suspect; to accuse. Retatus de murdro, accused of murder. Assis. de Clarendon, temp.
Hen. II. § 1; Spelman.
De furto retatus, charged with theft.
Cowell.