reciprocity

Defined in 6 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Bouvier (1839)

United States Code

50 U.S.C. § 3352 — in this title

The term "reciprocity" means reciprocal recognition by Federal departments and agencies of eligibility for access to classified information.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Mutuality; state, quality, or character of that which is reciprocal.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Mutuality; state, qualiprocity. The constitution requires that they shall deliver to each other fugitives from justice; that the records of one state, properly authenticated, shall have full credit in the other states; that the citizens of one state shall be citizens of any state into which they may remove. Their privileges and immunities shall not be abridged by any state law. See Extradition; Foreign Judgments; Privileges and Immunities. Between nations. Mutual concessions made by nations in favor of the importation of the products and manufactures of each other. The president of the United States has been authorized by various tariff acts to enter into reciprocal agreements with foreign countries, concerning the mutual importation of manufactures and products, and to suspend certain provisions of the tariff laws, accordingly. For the purpose of readjusting the present duties on importations into the United States and at the same time to encourage the export trade of this country, the President is authorized and empowered to negotiate trade agreements with foreign nations wherein mutual concessions are made looking toward freer trade relations and further reciprocal expansion of trade and commerce, but such agreements before becoming operative must be submitted to Congress for ratification or rejection. Act of Oct. 3, 1913. Under the Copyright Act of 1909 he may determine the existence of certain conditions on which reciprocity shall exist; Bong v. Art Co., 214 U. S. 236, 29 Sup. Ct. 628, 53 L. Ed. 979, 16 Ann. Cas. 1126.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Mutuality. The term ls used in international law to denote the relation existing bstween two states when each of them gives the subjects of the other certain privileges, on cendition that its own subjects shall enjoy similar privileges at the hands of the latter state. Sweet.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Comity; Extradition; Treaty.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

Mutuality;— state, quality or character of what is reciprocal. The states of the Union are bound to many acts of reciprocity. The constitution requires that they shall deliver to each other fugitives from justice; that the records of one state, properly authenticated, shall have full credit in the other states; that the citizens of one state shall be citizens of any state into which they may remove. In some of the states, as in Pennsylvania, the rule with regard to the effect of a REC the discharges of those courts which respect the discharges of the courts of Pennsylvania, are respected in that state.