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Abstract
The term reprisal has been used in a host of different ways since the Middle Ages, its earliest uses being unconnected to war. At the outset, though, it may be said that one crucial feature has been central to reprisals at all times: their role as a law‐enforcement measure, albeit of a self‐help variety. They are therefore to be contrasted with sanctions inflicted by a sovereign authority. More specifically, a reprisal is an action which is inherently unlawful but which is permitted, exceptionally, as a means of counteracting a prior violation of law.
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Abstract
The term reprisal has been used in a host of different ways since the Middle Ages, its earliest uses being unconnected to war.
At the outset, though, it may be said that one crucial feature has been central to reprisals at all times: their role as a law‐enforcement measure, albeit of a self‐help variety.
They are therefore to be contrasted with sanctions inflicted by a sovereign authority.
More specifically, a reprisal is an action which is inherently unlawful but which is permitted, exceptionally, as a means of counteracting a prior violation of law.
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