He had no dominions, and no place where the poor man could hold a Prize Court; and, if he could authorize a capture, there was no Court to adjudicate upon it; there was no sovereign to be responsible for the action of the Prize Court.
The commission or warrant may authorize a vice-admiralty court or colonial court of admiralty to act as a prize court, or establish a vice-admiralty court for that purpose, and may be revoked or altered at any time.
Turkey during her war of 1877 with Russia established a prize court and a court of appeal.
After all that has occurred--statements in Parliament, action of the Governor of Trinidad in bringing into operation the dormant powers of the Supreme Court of the island as a prize Court, &c.
A prize courtmay be established by the belligerent in its own state, in the territory where the belligerent has military jurisdiction or in the territory of an ally.
The crews of neutral vessels violating a blockade are not prisoners of war, but may be held as witnesses before a prize court.
A prize court is the tribunal which determines the rights of the parties concerned in the capture and the disposition of the goods or vessel.
The capture of any private vessel, whether prima facie belonging to an enemy or a neutral, must, therefore, be submitted to a Prize Court.
The prize has to be brought before a Prize Court, and it is the latter's confirmation of the capture through adjudication of the prize which makes the appropriation by the capturing belligerent final.
What we deny is the right of a naval officer to stand in place of a Prize Court, and adjudicate, sword in hand, with a sic volo, sic jubeo, on the very deck which is a part of our territory.
In the case of the seizure of "naval or victualling" stores her rule has been their purchase without condemnation in a prize court.
The request was accordingly made that authority be given for throwing the ship into a prize court, and that instructions be forwarded as to the proper disposal of the passengers on board.
But it is claimed as a public ship, which, as is well known, is not subject to the jurisdiction of a prize court.
If this vessel, now lying within the jurisdiction of the United States, were an ordinary private ship, cognizable in a prize court, or if it were still within the jurisdiction of Brazil, it might be so.
If the Florida were an ordinary private ship, claimed by private individuals, it would naturally fall under the cognizance of a prize court.
This opinion would have prohibited even the carrying of the Trent into an American port for trial by a prize court.
No force ought to be used against an "unresisting Neutral Ship" except just so much as is necessary to bring her before a prize court.
In the present case the British vessel had done nothing, and intended nothing, warranting even an inquiry by a prize court.
Prize court, the attempt to get our private property into, to be tried by the laws of war, 169.
Two months later the Vanderbilt visited Angra Pequena and captured there the British bark Saxon, having a large part of the wool on board, and sent her to a prize court in the United States.
A Mexican officer had seized her, on the ground that she was engaged in the slave trade, and was not disposed to permit her being sent before a prize court at Key West.
It doesn't require a prize court to decide the case of the steamer Narcissus.
She will never be sent to a prize court, Mr. Ricks.
Thus he says: "In most Greek states there was something of the nature of a prize court, to which appeals could be made by those who held they had been contrary to the law of nations deprived of their property.
A prize court of his own country would have decreed restitution of the vessel to the original owner so the recaptor has conferred no benefit by recapturing the vessel.
Thus the king established the admiralty as a prize court, made treaties binding himself to the protection of neutral rights, demanded adjudication of all prizes, and sought by ordinance to restrain illegal privateering.
The condemnation must be pronounced by a prize court of the Government of the captor, sitting either in the country of the captor, or of his ally.
Thus the sentence of a Prize Court, it is plain, is sufficient to confirm the captor's title to captures at sea; but a different rule applies to real property or immoveables.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prize court" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
