Impressment in Europe
Definition of Impressment
A power possessed by the Crown of compulsorily taking persons or property to aid in the defence of the country. It was usually exercised until 1815 to obtain seamen for the King’s ships
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Definition of Impressment is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.
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