☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Letter of Marque

A government license authorizing a private person to attack and capture enemy merchant ships during wartime. Abolished by the Declaration of Paris (1856).

Etymology: Old French 'marque' (seizure, reprisal) · Category: Military Law · Source: U.S. Constitution, Art. I, § 8; Declaration of Paris (1856)
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