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Embargo : (noun)
1: a government order imposing a trade barrier [syn: trade
embargo, trade stoppage]
(verb)
1: ban the publication of (documents), as for security or
copyright reasons; "embargoed publications"
2: prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Lybia"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Embargo : \Em*bar"go\, n.; pl. Embargoes. [Sp., fr. embargar to
arrest, restrain; pref. em- (L. in) _ Sp. barra bar, akin to
F. barre bar. See Bar.]
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure
of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its
dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is
called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to
citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil
embargo.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Embargo : \Em*bar"go\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embargoed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Embargoing.]
To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from
leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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EMBARGO, maritime law. A proclamation, or order of state, usually issued in
time of war, or threatened hostilities, prohibiting the departure of ships
or goods from some, or all the ports of such state, until further order. 2
Wheat. 148.
2. The detention of ships by anEmbargo : is such an injury to the owner
as to entitle him to recover on a policy of insurance against "arrests or
detainments." And whether the embargo be legally or illegally laid, the
injury to the owner is the same; and the insurer is equally liable for the
loss occasioned by it. Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 12, s. 5; 1 Kent, Com. 60 1
Bell's Com. 517, 5th ed.
3. An embargo detaining a vessel at the port of departure, or in the
course of the voyage, does not, of itself, work a dissolution of a charter
party, or the contract with the seamen. It is only a temporary restraint
imposed by authority for legitimate political purposes, which suspends, for
a time, the performance of such contracts, and leaves the rights of parties
untouched, 1 Bell's Com. 517; 8 T. R. 259; 5 Johns. R. 308; 7 Mass. R. 325,
3 B. & P. 405-434; 4 East, R. 546-566.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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