LETTER-OF-MARQUE. JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of the Confederate States of America, to all who shall see these presents, greeting: Know ye that by virtue of the power vested in me by law, ...

A Letter of Marque and Reprisal was a government license authorizing the holder to attack and capture enemy vessels, and bring them to an admiralty court for condemnation and sale.

This being duly commissioned involves letters-of-marque, and would constitute their vessels privateers. But they are not afraid of that, nor should the Government be.

Those bearing a letter of marque couldn’t be considered a pirate, but treated as a prisoner of war. (Letters of reprisal were similar but more limited, meant for those who had been wronged by a ...

Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 of the U.S. Constitution authorizes the U.S. government to “define and punish Piracies and Felonies on the high Seas and Offences against the Law of Nations ...

Letters of marque enlisted U.S. merchantman as far away as the Mediterranean, where Barbary states often provided pirate ships with safe harbor. In the typical 19th-century use, ...

Salutations, friends. Between multiple presidential debates, our ex-alcoholic “teetotaler” president boozing his way through Europe, the 3,500th casualty in Iraq, and cable news’ … ...

Hackers’ Letters of Marque. There is a fascinating saga playing out, along side the ground war in Ukraine: Hackers have been given a sort of Letter of Marque from the Ukranian government, ...