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CAPTIVE (from Lat. capere, to take)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 294 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CAPTIVE (from Lat. capere, to take) , one who is captured in warfare. As a
term
  of
International
  Law, it has been displaced by that of " prisoner of war." The position and treatment of captives or prisoners of war is now dealt with fully in chapter ii. of the regulations annexed to the Hague
Convention
  respecting the
Laws
  and Customs of War on
Land
 , of the 18th of
October
  1907.
See PEACE CONFERENCE and WAR; also Sir T.
Barclay
 , supplement to Problems of
International
  Practice and Diplomacy, for comparison of texts of 1899 and 1907.


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