The American Passport —— Its History and a Digest of Laws, Rulings and Regulations Governing Its Issuance by the Department of State

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ISBN: 9781331078494 出版年：2016 页码：239 Forgotten Books

Ti113 word passport is formed of two French words passer, to pass, and port, a port or harbor. Origi nally, it meant permission to leave a port or harbor, or sail into it, and this was extended to include gen erally permission of egress and of passage. In the strict nomenclature of international law, passports were classed with those documents known as safe conducts or letters of protection, by which the person of an enemy might be rendered safe and inviolable. These may be given to carry on the peculiar com merce of war, or for reasons which have no relation to it, which terminate with the person himself. A broader definition is, A document issued by com-332331310 petent civil authority, granting permission to the person specified in it to travel, Or authenticating his right to protection.