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nonintercourse

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nonintercourse, in international law, refusal of a state to engage in diplomatic or commercial relations with another state. It is a hostile act of retaliation for some wrong and is intended to effect redress. Since nations normally have diplomatic and commercial intercourse, nonintercourse may in some circumstances be a threat of war.


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82) The ship was suspected of being in violation of a nonintercourse law prohibiting American vessels from landing at French ports.
The most nettlesome issue was a little-known 1790 law known as the Nonintercourse Act, which prevents Indian tribes from selling, granting or leasing lands except by treaty with the U.
 
 
 
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