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Egypt off her own bat can legally renounce the capitulatory privileges of any power as she did in 1923 in Russia's case.

From Time Magazine Archive

What, else, were the families of the great to us? what pleasure should we take in their tedious genealogies, or their capitulatory brass monuments?

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles