From the legal point of view ships merely in sight contribute, and are therefore entitled to prize money.
Prize money, whether on sea or land, can now only be claimed under local law.
The share of prize money awarded to the United States is set apart forever as a fund for the payment of pensions to naval officers, seamen and marines entitled to pensions.
Then they are sold, and "prize money" is awarded the captors in proportion to the value of the prize.
Fabulous sums were paid in prize money, fortunes were made often in a single venture.
I know that nearest ship; it's the Plantagenet, I'll bet my prize money.
Congress voted fifty thousand dollars as prize money to the heroes of the Constitution and medals to her officers.
The American crew was soon exchanged, and Congress applied balm to the injured feelings of these fine sailormen by filling their pockets to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars in prize money.
But we do need, before we can proceed too far, some commitment on prize money.
I think probably they will be able to get some publicity backing through farm papers and what not, but still if we have a backlog of prize money, why, that's much to your advantage.
Congress had a medal struck in his honor, and gave swords to the officers and a handsome sum in prize money to the crew.
Why, there's Tom May smiling as if he'd filled his pockets full of prize money.
Skipper wants to keep friends with him so as he'll show us where all the niggers are, sir, and give us a chance to make a good haul of prize money?
My wound kept me laid up for a fortnight, and hobbling for another, so that I was unluckily prevented from accompanying my captain in a little expedition in which he gained much credit and a goodly portion of prize money.
And then I remembered again how far above me Lucy was in worldly position, and how I had nothing, barring a few hundred pounds of prize money and my paltry eighty pounds (or less) a year.
On the one hand I promise you plenty of fighting and lots of prize money, on the other there is the risk of being hanged.
And many a bet we made as to the amount of prize money we'd receive.
He hated the British, and he wanted to enrich himself by prize money.
How his mother cried when we left Bristol, and how he tried to comfort her by saying he would bring back lots of prize money.
After the close of the war, at a period of comparative inactivity, he began a profitable trade in illuminating oils, and in his character as prize money agent he continued to show his business dexterity.
The terms, indeed, which related largely to the distribution of prize money, left Jones in the position of commander in chief, but the fact that there was any agreement whatever between Jones and his subordinates weakened his authority.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prize money" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
