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CAPITULATION (Lat. capitulum, a little head or division; capitulare, to treat upon terms)

CAPITULATION (See also:
LAT
Lat. capitulum, a little See also:
HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART
head or See also:
DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)
division; capitulare, to treat upon terms) , an agreement in See also:

time of See also:

war for the surrender to a hostile armed force of a particular See also:

BODY

body of troops, a See also:

TOWN

town or a territory. It is an See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary incident of war, and therefore no previous instructions from the captor's See also:

government are required before finally settling the conditions of capitulation. The most usual of such conditions are freedom of See also:

religion and See also:

SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

security of private See also:

PROPERTY

property on the one See also:

hand, and a promise not to See also:

bear arms within a certain See also:

period on the other. Such agreements may be rashly concluded with an inferior officer, on whose authority the enemy are not in the actual position of the war entitled to See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place reliance. When an agreement is made by an officer who has not the proper authority or who has exceeded the limits of his authority, it is termed a sponsion, and, to be binding, must be confirmed by See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express or tacit ratification. See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

Article 35 of the See also:

HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague See also:

Convention (1899) on the See also:

LAWS

laws and the customs of war See also:

LAYS

lays down that " See also:

CAPITULATIONS (from Lat. ca put, or its Low-Latin diminutive capitulum, as indicating the form in which these acts were set down in chapters "; the Gr. equivalent cephaleosis, KediaXalwocc, is occasionally used in works of the 17th century)

capitulations agreed on between the contracting parties must be in accordance with the rules of military See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour. When once settled they must be observed by both the parties." In another sense, capitulation is the name given to an arrangement by which foreigners are withdrawn, for most See also:

CIVIL

civil and criminal purposes, from the See also:

jurisdiction of the See also:

state making the capitulation. Thus in See also:

TURKEY

Turkey arrangements termed capitulations (q.v.), and See also:

TREATIES

treaties confirmatory of them, have been made between the See also:

PORTE, THE SUBLIME (Arab. babi-'ali, the high gate, through the French translation la sublime porte)

Porte and other states by which foreigners See also:

RESIDENT

resident in Turkey are subject to the laws of their respective countries. The See also:

TERM

term is also applied by See also:

French writers to the See also:

OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath which on his See also:

election the See also:

HOLY

Holy See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor used to make to the See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of See also:

ELECTORS (Ger. Kurfursten, from Kilren, O.H.G. kiosan, choose, elect, and Furst, prince)

electors; this related chiefly to such matters as regalian rights, appeals from See also:

LOCAL

local jurisdictions, the rights of the See also:

pope, &c.

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