Legal Definition and Related Resources of Hostage
Meaning of Hostage
A person delivered into the possession of a public enemy in the time of war, as a security for the performance of a contract entered into between the belligerents. Hostages are frequently given as a security for the payment of a ransom bill, and if they should die, their death would not discharge the contract. 3 Burrows, 1734; 1 Kent, Comm. 106; Dane, Abr. Index.
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Synonyms of Hostage
noun
- bond
- captive
- collateral
- guarantee
- internee
- obses
- pledge
- political prisoner
- prisoner
- real security
- security
- Associated Concepts: false imprisonment
- kidnapping
- ransom
Hostage in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of hostage.
Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Hostage
(You may find hostage at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
late 13c., from Old French ostage, hostage “kindness, hospitality; residence, dwelling; rent, tribute; compensation; guarantee, pledge, bail; person given as security or hostage” (11c., Modern French ôtage), which is of uncertain origin. Either from hoste “guest” (see host (n.1)) via notion of “a lodger held by a landlord as security” [Watkins, Barnhart]; or else from Late Latin obsidanus “condition of being held as security,” from obses “hostage,” from ob- “before” + base of sedere “to sit,” with spelling influenced by Latin hostis. [OED, Century Dictionary]. Modern political/terrorism sense is from 1970.
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- Law Enforcement Officer
- Police Work
- Law Enforcement Agency
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