However, he declared the chip, the property on board of her, and the servants, to be lawful prize, and detained them accordingly.
France had declared every American vessel that was bound to or from Great Britain, or having on board goods, the produce or manufacture of Great Britain, to be lawful prize.
In the passage from Ostend to Dominique, this brigantine was taken by an American privateer, carried into Boston and acquitted, with her cargo; but the Judges of Appeals have condemned as lawful prize, both vessel and cargo.
He was in reality a Prussian, and of course detained as a lawful prize.
The Hermione was regarded as a lawful prize by the Spaniards, notwithstanding the extraordinary manner by which the ship fell into their hands.
The principle has been adopted in all ages, that private property, captured on the high seas, is a lawful prize to the captors; also, that the destruction of private property belonging to an enemy is a justifiable act.
There is much truth indeed in the observations, which some have made, and which they have produced examples to confirm, that even in wars of this kind all captures become the lawful prize of the captors.
For any thing given up to pirates or robbers, through fear, is no lawful prize: but it may be recovered, unless a solemn oath of renunciation has been taken.
The tenth share belonging to the crown out of a lawful prize taken at sea.
A captured ship declared by sentence of the admiralty court to be lawful prize.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawful prize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
