capitulation (kapitulashon)

[= D. ka pitulatie = F. capitulation (> G. capitulation = Dan. kapitulation ) = Sp. capitulación = Pg. ca pitulação = It. capitol azione, With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet, Records, No. 50, i. 2 Specifically -2. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms or conditions; also, the treaty or instrument containing the conditions of such a surrender. My idea was, that all persons taken in war were to be deemed prisoners of war. That those who surrender on capitulation (or convention) are prisoners of war also. Jefferson, Correspondence, I. 164. 3. (a) In the Holy Roman Empire, the contract or pledge entered into by the elected emperor, before receiving coronation, with the electors, in which the latter generally secured some conce ion as the price of their votes. (b) pl. (1) The name given by Europe ans to those treaties and conce ions of the early sultans of Turkey which secure to foreigners residing there rights of exterritoriality, in continuation of similar privileges granted to foreign residents by the Byzantine empire. These privileges are in general called Capitula tions ; not in the sense now usual of a surrender of right, for they were a free grant, but in the old sense of an agreement under heads and articles"Capitula." The word was not unusual in such a sense in old French treaties and conventions, for we read of a " Capitulation and Contract of Mar riage" between Dom Pedro of Portugal and the Prince Marie of Savoy. E. Schuyler , Amer. Diplomacy, pp. 59, 60. (2) Conventions formerly entered into by the Swi cantons to regulate the employment of Swi troops by the popes, the Netherlands, and the kings of Spain, Naples, and France. capitulator (ka-pit'u-la-tor), n. [ capitulator , capitulare : : see capitulate .] One who capitulates. IMG:content-3097.png:[graphic] *