Contraband of war


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that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent.
- Wharton.

See also: Contraband

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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