revendication

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REVENDICA'TION, noun The act of reclaiming or demanding the restoration of any thing taken by an enemy; as by right of postliminium. The endless disputes which would spring from the revendication of them, have introduced a contrary practice.
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