"Blockade" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
ln international law. A marine investment or beleaguering of a town or harbor. A sort of olrcumvallatlon round a place by whlch all foreign connection and correspondence is, as far as human power can effect it, to be cut off. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 151. It is not necessary, however, that the place should be Invested by land, as well as by sea, in order to constitute a legal block-ade; and, lf a place be blockaded by sea only, it ls no violation of belligerent rights for tbe neutral to carry on commerce wlth it by inland communications. 1 Kent, Comm. 147
Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with
the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of
supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
An obstruction to passage.
To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it
with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or
egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
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