Attentat Definition

ȧtäōtȧ
noun
An attempt, esp. an unsuccessful one, at an act of political violence.
Webster's New World
1848, Archibald John Stephens, A Practical Treatise of the Laws Relating to the Clergy, Volume 1, page 33,
An attentat, in the language of the civil and canon laws, is anything, whatsoever, wrongfully innovated or attempted in the suit by the judge à quo, pending an appeal. […] In Chichester v. Donegal (3) it was intimated by Sir John Nicholl that “The regular course for procuring the revocation of attentats was by a separate proceeding, civil or criminal, as against a judge à quo, and that it was not by charging the supposed attentats, accumulatively, in a mere ordinary libel of appeal.”
Wiktionary
2004, U. N. Gupta, The Human Rights: Conventions And Indian Law, page 146,
By the end of nineteenth century the attentat clause became a general exception in making of extradition treaties. The 1933 Montevideo Convention on Extradition by its Article 5 incorporated the exception in nature of attentat clause in the general protection against extradition, already made available to the political offenders under Article 3(2).
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Other Word Forms of Attentat

Noun

Singular:
attentat
Plural:
attentats

Origin of Attentat

  • From either French attentat or German Attentat.

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