the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
the law imposed upon a defeated country or occupied territory by the military forces of the occupying power.
240 posted on 03/17/2012 7:39:06 PM PDT by FourPeas
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