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FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT 1870 - SECT 4



4. If any person, without the license of Her Majesty, being a British subject,
within or without Her Majesty's dominions, accepts or agrees to accept any
commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign state
at war with any foreign state at peace with Her Majesty, and in this Act
referred to as a friendly state, or whether a British subject or not within
Her Majesty's dominions, induces any other person to accept or agree to accept
any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any such
foreign state as aforesaid,

He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by
fine and imprisonment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the
court before which the offender is convicted; ....


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