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CAPTIVE (from Lat. capere, to take)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAPTIVE (from
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Lat. capere, to take)  , one who is captured in warfare . As a
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term of
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International
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Law, it has been displaced by that of " prisoner of
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war." The position and treatment of captives or prisoners of war is now dealt with fully in
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chapter ii. of the regulations annexed to the
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Hague
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Convention respecting the
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Laws and Customs of War on
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Land, of the 18th of
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October 1907 . See
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PEACE
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CONFERENCE and WAR; also
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Sir T.
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Barclay, supplement to Problems of International Practice and
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Diplomacy, for comparison of texts of 1899 and 1907 .

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