A license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation.
Governmental authorization of privateering.
1 Of course we are really a trader, though we do carry a letter of marque .
2 You equipped your own brig with a letter of marque , and sailed it yourself off Jamaica.
3 Her commission or letter of marque of course protected her, but when she was inward-bound that circumstance carried no weight.
4 Stevenson, I am an Englishman, and Hurry Brothers did not get a letter of marque for this ship for nothing.
5 As the letter of marque drew still nigher, Israel heard the officer in command of the party ashore shouting, To the castle!
6 Lady Maccon flipped through the various stacks of papers and rolls of parchments inside her case, looking for her muhjah letter of marque .
7 It would be a new form of electronic search warrant, an "electronic letter of marque " to be issued by a judge.
8 The negotiations dragged on for more than two years, and were complicated by disputes growing out of the captures made under letter of marque .
9 He sailed where he would under letters of marque from the Presidents.
10 To them I would issue letters of marque , to harry England's trade.
11 He furnished these young mutineers with ships and money and letters of marque .
12 Letters of Marque , against France, asked by President Jackson, 420.
13 What protection is afforded by letters of marque and reprisal?
14 Will you give them letters of marque and reprisal to pay themselves by force?
15 On the 17th the President of the Confederacy authorized the issue of letters of marque .
16 The English have declared war against the Dutch and granted letters of marque and reprisals.
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