capitulatoryadj.

1768 Conf. Commissaries Massachusets-Bay 17 Their estates secured by the publick faith of capitulatory articles agreeable to the law and custom of nations.

1798 W. Cobbett tr. M. L. E. Moreau de Saint-Méry Topogr. & Polit. Descr. Saint-Domingo II. 41 The capitulatory formalities..must take for model the cathedral of Seville, on which we must remember Santo-Domingo depended before it became an archbishoprick.

1829 W. Smith Hist. Late Province N.-Y. I. iv. 172 Nor a doubt started concerning the authority of the Classis of Amsterdam, under the capitulatory articles of 1664.

1895 Law Q. Rev. 11 253 Labrador..was transferred to Canada because private rights in land had accrued there also under capitulatory sales.

1921 Public Opinion 27 Aug. 198/1 The much desired abolition of the capitulatory regime.

1967 Foreign Service Jrnl. 44 44 For human beings, the capitulatory gesture usually becomes impossible under conditions of mass struggle.

2003 M. Zirinsky in S. Cronin Making Mod. Iran v. 90 Among countries which had diplomatic relations with Iran, Poland, Russia and Turkey had already renounced their capitulatory rights.