MILITARY GOVERNMENT

military government.Int’l law. The control of all or most public functions within a country, or the assumption and exercise of governmental functions, by military forces or individual members of those forces; government exercised by a military commander under the direction of the executive or sovereign, either externally during a foreign war or internally during a civil war. • A military government’s actions supersede all local law. See MARTIAL LAW.

[Blacks Law 8th]