Legal Definition and Related Resources of Reprisal

In international law , the term denotes such actions as embargo , seizure , etc., as a means employed by one nation against another to procure a redress of an injury committed by such other . The term also means retaliation. At common law , the term denotes the taking of one thing in satisfaction for another.

noun

• avengement
• counterattack
• counterblast
• counterplot
• counterstroke
• desert
• disciplinary action
• discingpline
• due
• due punishment
• getting even
• measure for measure
• nemesis
• penalty
• punishment
• punition
• punitive action
• reaction
• reciprocation
• repayment
• requital
• retaliation
• retribution
• retributive justice
• return
• revenge
• revengefulness
• talion
• vendetta
• vengeance
• vengefulness
• vindictiveness

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Reprisal in Historical Law

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A punitive act that is normally illegal but considered justified because of another state’s prior offense; such an act had more support in customary law of an earlier time than today.

A punitive act that is normally illegal but considered justified because of another state’s prior offense; such an act had more support in customary law of an earlier time than today.