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Ne exeat regno.

.—In despotic countries this is a writ to restrain those who are oppressed from leaving the kingdom. This is one of those arbitrary measures that none but a Tyrant would make use of, and none but a base-born abject people would submit to.

Notes

Ne exeat regno is a writ that prevents someone from leaving the country.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Ne exeat regno.