Retorsion
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The name of the act employed by a government to impose the same hard treatment on the citizens or subjects of a state that the latter has used towards the citizens or subjects of the former, for the purpose of obtaining the removal of obnoxious measures. Vattel, liv.
2, c. 18, § 341; De Martens, Precis, liv. 8, c. 2, § 254; Kluber, Dr. des Gens, sec. 2, c. 1, § 234; Manning, Comm. 105.