martial law

martial law
/marshal 16/ Exists when military authorities carry on government or exercise various degrees of control over civilians or civilian authorities in domestic territory. Ochikubo v. Bonesteel, D.C.Cal., 60 F.Supp. 916, 928, 929, 930.
Such may exist either in time of war or when civil authority has ceased to function or has become ineffective. A system of law, obtaining only in time of actual war and growing out of the exigencies thereof, arbitrary in its character, and depending only on the will of the commander of an army, which is established and administered in a place or district of hostile territory held in belligerent possession, or, sometimes, in places occupied or pervaded by insurgents or mobs, and which suspends all existing civil laws, as well as the civil authority and the ordinary administration of justice.

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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