Martial Law Definition

noun
Temporary rule by the military authorities over the civilian population, as in an area of military operations in time of war, or when civil authority has broken down.
Webster's New World
The law imposed on an occupied territory by occupying military forces.
American Heritage
Civil law exerted over citizens by military, generally in times of war or emergency.
Webster's New World Law

Martial Law Sentence Examples

  • On learning of the invasion President Boshof proclaimed martial law throughout the country.

  • But all attempts at negotiation failed, and in January 49 B.C., martial law having been proclaimed on the proposal of the consuls, the tribunes Antony and Cassius fled to Caesar, who crossed the Rubicon (the frontier of Italy) with a single legion, exclaiming "Alea jacta est."

  • Their proper title is "Clerks Regulars of the Society of Jesus," the word Societas being taken as synonymous with the original Spanish term, Compania; perhaps the military term Cohors might more fully have expressed the original idea of a band of spiritual soldiers living under martial law and discipline.

  • On the 2nd of September the diet was dissolved; the taxes were continued by electoral ordinance; and the country was placed under martial law.

  • On the 30th of August General Fremont by military order declared martial law and confiscation against active enemies, with freedom to their slaves, in the State of Missouri.

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