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Definition of right of search in English: right of searchnoun mass nounThe right of a ship of a belligerent state to stop and search a neutral merchant vessel for prohibited goods. Example sentencesExamples - The northern powers (Russia, Prussia, Denmark, and Sweden) formed a league of armed neutrality to resist the British right of search at sea.
- Yet during international tensions over the Eastern question in 1840, and over the British right of search of French merchant ships in 1842, any association with a British cause seemed unpatriotic.
- In January 1801 a maritime convention in St Petersburg attempted to resolve the problems but the right of search continued to cause difficulties for many years.
Definition of right of search in US English: right of searchnoun The right of a ship of a belligerent state to stop and search a neutral merchant vessel for prohibited goods. Example sentencesExamples - The northern powers (Russia, Prussia, Denmark, and Sweden) formed a league of armed neutrality to resist the British right of search at sea.
- In January 1801 a maritime convention in St Petersburg attempted to resolve the problems but the right of search continued to cause difficulties for many years.
- Yet during international tensions over the Eastern question in 1840, and over the British right of search of French merchant ships in 1842, any association with a British cause seemed unpatriotic.
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