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Martial law   /mˈɑrʃəl lɔ/   Listen
Martial law

noun
1.
The body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law.





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"Martial law" Quotes from Famous Books



... to meet expenses was also provided for. In a word, every function of government was from that time exercised in the name and by the authority of the people of North Carolina. Virtually the province was under martial law, but it was ...
— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore
... period martial law prevailed in the South. The Yankee troops, placed in every town, were the only police present and all cases from the county were presented to ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration
... of the Mississippi was placed under martial law. The fleet and army were put on a war footing. Flights of airplanes were assembled at numerous points along the eastern seaboard. To this Council Donald was attached as head of Intelligence for the Eastern Division. Yet all this availed little unless the ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various
... is around town this afternoon that the Germans have already crossed the frontier without the formality of a declaration of war—but that remains to be seen. Brussels was put under martial law last night, and is now patrolled by grenadiers ...
— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson
... gentlemen in Kent. Pitt had the same longing; but he never wrote a line expressing a desire to leave the tiller at the height of the storm. Obviously Camden was weary of his work. Fear seems to have been the motive which prompted his proclamation of martial law in several counties and the offer of an amnesty to all who would surrender their arms before Midsummer 1797. Those enactments, together with the brutal methods of General Lake and the soldiery in Ulster and Leinster, crushed revolt for the present but kindled ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose


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