Retorsion

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

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.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Retaliation in kind by one nation toward another in return for discourtesy.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In international law. A species of retaliation, which takes place where a government, whose citizens are subjected to severe and stringent regulation or harsh treatment by a foreign government, employs measures of equal severity and harshness upon the subjects of the latter government found within its dominions. See Vattel, lib. 2, c. 18, § 34L

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

^ Applying the law of retaliation to another nation, — treating it or its subjects in similar circumstances according to the rule which is set.*