retorsion / rɪˈtɔr ʃən /

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retorsion 的定义

n. 名词 noun

International Law.

  1. retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.

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  1. Although such acts may be met by retorsion, they are not illegal and therefore not delinquent acts.
  2. It can, secondly, exercise retorsion and reprisals for the purpose of making the other State comply with its demands.
  3. Retorsion, reprisals, pacific blockade, and war will be treated in the second volume of this work.
  4. For the application of retorsion is confined to political, and that of reprisals to legal differences.
  5. The question when retorsion is and when it is not justified is not one of law, and is difficult to answer.