An ordinance, for amending the ordinance, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful.

An ordinance, relative to the capture and condemnation of prizes.

An ordinance for the better distribution of prizes in certain cases.

An act providing for salvage in cases of re-capture.
Published: (1799)

Capture the moment : the Pulitzer Prize photographs /
Published: (2001)

Extracts from the Journals of Congress, relative to the capture and condemnation of prizes, and the fitting out privateers : together with the rules and regulations of the navy, and instructions to the commanders of private ships of war.

An act to empower the Court of Admiralty to have jurisdiction in all cases of capture of the ships and other vessels of the inhabitants of Great-Britain, Ireland, the British West-Indies, Nova Scotia, and East and West Florida; to establish the trial by jury in the Court of Admiralty in cases of capture, and for the other purposes therein mentioned : Passed April 11, 1776.

Facilitating further the disposition of prizes captured by the United States.
Published: (1945)

Prize law during the world war ; a study of the jurisprudence of the prize courts, 1914-1924 /
by: Garner, James Wilford, 1871-1938
Published: (1927)

The American experience of British prize law, 1776-1804 /
by: Foxley, Suzanne Amy
Published: (2025)

The Narrative of Mr. John Soren, a native of the United States of America, piratically captured on the high seas, in requital for an act of humanity, in saving a British transport, with near 300 troops on board, from sinking : with an appendix containing the documents referred to in the narrative, a letter from the American minister and testimonials of the truth of the statement from Major Mansergh, the commanding officer of the troops, and Captain Davis.
Published: (1800)

An act to prevent the sale of prizes brought into the United States, by vessels belonging to any foreign prince or state.

In Congress, May 21, 1776 : Resolved, that all persons taken in arms on board any prize, be deemed prisoners ...

List of some briefs in appeal causes which relate to America tried before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals of Prize Causes of His Majesty's Privy Council, 1736-1758.
by: Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902
Published: (1889)

Observations on matters of prize : and the practice of the Admiralty Prize Courts, in defence of the rights and interests of His Majesty's Navy /
by: Pott, John Frederick

16th December, 1799. Read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Thursday next : A bill providing for salvage in cases of re-capture.
Published: (1799)

How to win the Nobel Prize in literature : a handbook for the would-be laureate /
by: Carter, David
Published: (2012)

In Congress, Wednesday, April 3, 1776 : Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorising them to make captures of British vessels and cargoes. ...

Report of a case recently argued and determined in His Majesty's Court of King's Bench on the validity of a sentence of condemnation by an enemy's consul in a neutral port, and the right of the owner of the ship to call upon the underwriters, to reimburse him the money paid for the purchase of the ship at a sale by auction, under such sentence : with an appendix containing the French laws now in force relative to maritime prizes &c., and the Danish ordinance of the 20th of April 1796 imposing a duty on foreign ships /
by: Havelock

(Circular.) Treasury Department, May 30, 1793 : Sir, It being the opinion of the executive, that there is no general law of the land, prohibiting the entry and sale of goods captured by foreign powers at war ... It becomes the duty of this department to make known to you, that the entry of vessels captured and brought into our ports by the ships of war and privateers of France, and of their cargoes, is to be received in the same manner ... as that of vessels and their cargoes which are not prizes.
Published: (1793)

A translation of the chapters CCLXXIII and CCLXXXVII of the Consolato del mare relating to prize law.

An act declaring the grounds and causes of making prize the ships and goods that shall be taken from time to time by the Parliaments ships at sea, and for the encouragement of officers, mariners and seamen. : Die Martis, 17 April, 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliament'.
Published: (1649)

Some observations on the fourth report from the committee on the public expenditure : being an examination into the conduct and transactions of the commissioners for Dutch prizes /
by: Jennyns, Joseph Clayton

Some observations on the statement and evidence in the fourth report presented to the House of Commons, from the Committee on the Public Expenditure : containing an examination into the conduct and transactions of the commissioners for Dutch prizes /
by: Jennyns, Joseph Clayton

Squall across the Atlantic ; American Civil War prize cases and diplomacy /
by: Bernath, Stuart L.
Published: (1970)

An exposition of the conduct of France towards America : illustrated by cases decided in the council of prizes in Paris /
by: Goldsmith, Lewis, 1763?-1846

The substance of a decision, in the court of Vice-Admiralty at Halifax : upon a petition from the deputy to the treasurer of Greenwich Hospital, against the prize-agents of the Bermuda, for certain unclaimed shares of prize-money due to the hospital, delivered on the 8th May, 1811.

Proceedings relative to the Danish brig Hope, and cargo.
by: Bingham, William, 1752-1804
Published: (1800)

Hearing on S. 992, To Amend Sections 4613 and 4614 of the Revised Statutes of the U.S. To Include Captures of Aircraft as Prizes of War : hearings before the United States House Committee on Naval Affairs, Seventy-Seventh Congress, first session, on June 5, 1941.
Published: (1941)

Extract uit de dag-registers van het Noord-Amerikaansche Congres, betrekkelyk tot het neemen en verbeurd-verklaaren van scheeps-pryzen en het uitrusten van kaapers : benevens de Ordonnantiën en schikkingen der zee-vloot, en de instructiën voor de bevel-hebbers der particuliere oorlog-schepen.
Published: (1777)

The Narrative of Mr. John Soren : a native of the United States of America, piratically captured on the high seas, in requital for an act of humanity, in saving a British transport, with near 300 troops on board, from sinking, with an appendix containing the documents referred to in the narrative, a letter from the American minister, and testimonials of the truth of the statement from Major Mansergh, the commanding officer of the troops, and Captain Davis.
Published: (1800)

Commentary on the law of prize and booty /
by: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645
Published: (2006)

The Case of the sloop Active, &c.

Facilitating disposition of prizes captured by the United States during the present war.
Published: (1942)

In Congress, May 2, 1780 : Instructions to the captains and commanders of private armed vessels which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal.

American vessels captured by the British during the Revolution and War of 1812 : the records of the Vice-admiralty Court at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Published: (2023)

In Congress March 23, 1776 : Whereas the petitions of these United Colonies to the King, for the redress of great and manifest grievances, have not only been rejected, but treated with scorn and contempt ... resolved, that the inhabitants of these colonies be permitted to fit out armed vessels to cruise on the enemies of these United Colonies. ...