prize court

In the prize court the King received half of the proceeds and the company half.

"Better price in the prize court there, too," Stafford commented.

The ship was released by a German prize court in September.

Under those circumstances, the amount they did receive from the prize court's awards would be pure profit.

"The men aren't exactly likely to be singing loud hosannas when we remind them about the prize court, are they?"

She captured both vessels and sent them into port to be adjudicated by a prize court.

The gunboat took each to Key West where they were condemned by a prize court.

He was buying in theSirèneand the prize court had condemned all the merchantmen.

The privateers appealed to the prize court in Paris, which upheld the release.

He was judge of the Russian supreme prize court established to determine cases arising during the war with Japan.

Prize courts were common in the 17th through 19th centuries during times of American or European naval warfare.

And even if the prize court ruled in a timely way, they wouldn't pay in real money, just in notes.

If all was in order, the prize court ordered the vessel and its cargo condemned and sold at auction.

Houghton's court consequently earned the reputation of being a mere "prize court".

There were several other prize courts nearby and very few captured ships were brought to Bermuda leaving him little to do.

The Massachusetts prize courts were busiest in 1779, when more than 180 prizes were adjudicated.

Under contemporary international law and treaties, nations may still bring enemy vessels before their prize courts, to be condemned and sold.

"Prize courts are mighty slow, lieutenant," Jase said.

The blockade had to be effective to be cognizable in a prize court, that is, not merely declared but actually enforced.

They contended that their property was neutral in this conflict and would not have been declared as a prize in an American prize court.

International law required that when "contraband" was discovered on a ship, the ship should be taken to the nearest prize court for adjudication.

Atlanta was subsequently purchased from a prize court by the Federal Government and commissioned in the Union Navy.

Kroonland was allowed to resume her journey on 8 November after the copper and rubber were unloaded and taken to a prize court.

The Union Navy acquired the schooner from the prize court and outfitted the vessel for blockade duty.

She was condemned there and formally purchased by the Navy from the Key West prize court on 24 July 1863.