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PASSPORT , or safe-conduct in See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:war, a document granted by a belligerent See also:power to prptect persons and See also:property from the operation of hostilities. In the See also:case of the See also:ship of aneutral power, the passport is a requisition by the See also:government of the neutral See also:state to suffer the See also:vessel to pass freely with the See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew, See also:cargo, passengers, &c., without molestation by the belligerents. The requisition, when issued by the See also:civil authorities of the See also:port from which the vessel is fitted out, is called a See also:sea-See also:letter. But the terms passport and sea-letter are often used indiscriminately. A See also:form of sea-letter (literae salvi conductus) is appended to the Treaty of the See also:Pyrenees, 1659. The passport is frequently mentioned in See also:treaties, e.g. the Treaty of See also:Copenhagen, 167o, between See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:Denmark. The violation of a passport, or safe conduct, is a See also:grave See also:breach of See also:international See also:law. The offence in the See also:United States is punishable by See also:fine and imprisonment where the passport or safe conduct is granted under the authority of the .United States (See also:Act of See also:Congress, See also:April 30, 1790). In its more See also:familiar sense a passport is a document authorizing a See also:person to pass out of or into a See also:country, or a See also:licence or safe-conduct to the person specified therein and authenticating his right to aid and See also:protection. Although most See also:foreign countries may now be entered without passports, the See also:English foreign See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office recommends travellers to furnish them-selves with them, as affording a ready means of See also:identification in case of need. They are usually granted by the foreign office of a state, or by its See also:diplomatic agents abroad. The English Foreign Office charges two shillings for a passport, whatever number of persons may be named in it. Passports granted in See also: England are subject to a See also:stamp See also:duty of sixpence. They may be granted to naturalized as well as natural-See also:born See also:British subjects.
See " The Passport See also:System," by N. W. Sibley, in Jour. Comp. See also:Leg. new See also:series, vol. vii. The regulations respecting passports issued by the English Foreign Office as well as the passport requirements of foreign countries will be found in the See also:annual Foreign Office See also:List.
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