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7290. REPRISAL, Act of war.—

Remonstrance
and refusal of satisfaction ought to
precede reprisal, and when reprisal follows it
is considered as an act of war, and never yet
failed to produce it in the case of a nation able
to make war.—
Opinion on the “Little Sarah”. Washington ed. vii, 628. Ford ed., vi, 259.
(1793)