A prisoner of war, being a public enemy, is the prisoner of the government and not of the captor.
A prisoner of war is a public enemy, armed or attached to the hostile army for active aid, who has fallen into the hands of the captor, either fighting or wounded, on the field or in the hospital, by individual surrender or by capitulation.
By public enemy is meant a power at war with a nation.
If a loss of goods occurs by means of public enemy, a carrier is not liable as an insurer of the goods.
At last Cicero could induce the senators to declare Antony a public enemy.
He was declared a public enemy and a force under the consul Antonius dispatched against him.
Pompey) to protect the state, and declaring Caesar a public enemy.
The names of tyrant, of gladiator, of public enemy resounded in every corner of the house.
He insisted that Severus should be declared a public enemy by the senate.
Sir, the Charge hath called you Tyrant, a Traitor, a Murderer, and a Public Enemy to the Commonwealth of England.
What sentence the law affirms to a Traitor, Tyrant, a Murderer, and a public Enemy to the Country, that Sentence you are now to hear read unto you; and that is the Sentence of the Court.
A prisoner of war, being a public enemy, is the prisoner of the government, and not of the captor.
But if he be taken prisoner by a public enemyof the state, being considered as a prisoner of war, he is entitled by the right of postliminium to be restored to his former condition.
The lawfulness of injuring or destroying the person of a public enemy is supported by the testimony of many of the best writers, both poets, moralists, and historians.
In one of the tragedies of Euripides, there is a proverb, which says, that "to kill a public enemy, or an enemy in war is no murder.
The king and the council having waited in vain for his answer to the charges, made proclamation of outlawry against him, and declared him a public enemy unless he returned and appeared before the court at its next sitting.
On Richard's refusal to take this oath, they prepared to resist him as a public enemy.
The War Powers of Congress are ample; but in time of war a mere penal statute against a public enemy is not so much as a pop-gun.
As a public enemy, he seeks to subvert our Government, its laws and its Constitution; and in this warfare he proceeds according to the Rights of War, indifferent to any mere local law.
Whatever the provisions of the Constitution for protection of the citizen, they are inapplicable to what is done against a public enemy.
To whom the booty ultimately belongs is not for International but for Municipal Law[274] to determine, since International Law simply states that public enemy property on the battlefield can be appropriated by belligerents.
By the treachery of Publius Dolabella, Caius Trebonius was slain in Asia: for which crime the senate voted Dolabella to be a public enemy.
Within two months of his having been declared a public enemy, all Italy was at Caesar's feet.
There he maintained himself in defiance of the Senate, who at last, urged by Cicero, declared him a public enemy.
Soon after Antony's departure Cicero prevailed upon the Senate to declare Antony a public enemy, and to intrust to the young Octavian the conduct of the war against him.
Dacians again rose in arms, and the Senate declared Decebalus a public enemy.
Cicero was anxious to break with Antony at once, by declaring him a public enemy.
Cæsar was directed by the senate to disband his army by a fixed day, on pain of being considered a public enemy.
On his motion Dolabella was declared a public enemy.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public enemy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
