Reprisal
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
reprisel. A tion; a taking of one way of retaliation.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
The taking one thing m satisfaction for another: it is either ordinary, as arresting and taking the goods of merchant-strangers within the realm; or extraordinary, as satisfaction out of the realm, — and is under the great seal. {Lex Mercat. 120.) Wharton.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
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.