There were two types of capitulations, the capitulations of Empire, acts of the German emperors, and the Othoman capitulations extended to the 19°siècle with other Asian and African countries (Egypt, Perse, Siam, Japan and China).

The capitulation of Empire was an act by which the emperor of Germany, with his advent, committed himself respecting the rights and preferences of the Germanic body. This use was introduced in 1519, at the time of the election of Charles Quint; the last capitulation was sworn by François II in 1792.

The capitulations which regulated the statute from abroad in the Ottoman Empire were initially established towards 1535 - 1536 between the sultan Soliman the Magnificent the and the king of France François I {{er}}. The French had the right to travel, trade, the freedom of religion, and the French Consul could only the juger.
In 1580 England signed a similar treaty then Holland in 1609 and Austria in 1675.

These conventions granted the nationals of the European countries concerned of the specific rights (to be judged by special courts in particular) in the Ottoman Empire as well as a right to watch on the fate made with the Christian of this country, from which some, as well as Othoman Juif S, acquired sometimes one as of these European nationalities in order to escape the local courts and to profit from the protection of a foreign Power (see Levantin S).

The nationalists Turks denounced the capitulations like an attack with the sovereignty of the Turkey, in 1904 the revolution of young Turkish proclaims of it abolition and the sultan denounces this mode unilaterally on September 9th, 1914.

The mode of the scales is related to the capitulations.

The capitulations were abolished in Turkey by the Traité of Lausanne of 1923 and in Egypt by the Convention of Montreux of 1937.