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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 4 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANGARY (See also:Lat. See also:jus angariae; Fr. See also:droit d'angarie; Ger. Angarie; from the Gr. ayyapeia, the See also:office of an ayyapos, See also:courier or messenger)  , the name given to the right of a belligerent to seize and apply for the purposes of See also:war (or to prevent the enemy from doing so) any See also:kind of See also:property on, belligerent territory, including that which may belong to subjects or citizens of a neutral See also:state . See also:Art . 53 of the Regulations respecting the See also:Laws and Customs of War on See also:Land, annexed to the See also:Hague See also:Convention of 1899 on the same subject, provides that railway plant, land telegraphs, telephones, steamers and other See also:ships (other than such as are governed by maritime See also:law), though belonging to companies or private persons, may be used for military operations, but " must be restored at the conclusion of See also:peace and indemnities paid for them." And Art . S4 adds that " the plant of See also:railways coming from neutral states, whether the property of those states or of companies or private persons, shall be sent back to them as soon as possible." These articles seem to See also:sanction the right of See also:angary against neutral property, while limiting it as against both belligerent and neutral property . It may be considered, however, that the right to use implies as wide a range of contingencies as the " See also:necessity of war " can be made to See also:cover . (T .

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