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letter of countermart

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letter of countermart (plural letters of countermart)

  1. Alternative form of letter of countermarque
    • 1966, Frederick Neville Hopkins, Business and Law for the Shipmaster, page 516:
      Letters of countermart were similar commissions by which reprisals on an enemy's merchant shipping were given state sanction.