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REPRISALS (Fr. represailles, from reprendre; See also:Lat. reprehendere, to take back) , properly speaking, the See also:act of forcibly seizing something belonging to another See also:state by way of See also:retaliation, but currently used for the retaliation itself. They are acts of violence which are a casus See also:belli according to the manner in which the state against which they are exercised regards them and is able to resist or resent them. Two comparatively See also:recent cases have occurred in which this See also:form of redress was resorted to. In the one See also:case a demand by the See also:British See also:government for an See also:indemnity for injuries inflicted on the British See also:vice-See also:consul and certain other British subjects by Nicaraguan authorities in the See also:Mosquito reserve not having been complied with, British See also:naval forces were landed on See also:April 27th, 1895, at See also:Corinto, where they occupied the customs See also:house and other public buildings till an agreement was arrived at. In the other case the See also:French government in See also:November 1901 ordered the occupation by French naval forces of the customs house at Mytilene until redress was obtained for See also:divers claims of French citizens. A See also:Hague See also:Convention of 1907 now places limitations on the employment of force for the recovery of See also:contract debts, and forbids recourse to armed force unless " the debtor state refuses or neglects to reply to an offer of See also:arbitration, or after accepting the offer prevents any See also:compromise from being agreed on, or after arbitration fails to submit to the See also:award " (See also:art. I). (T.

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