Sentence examples for courts prize from inspiring English sources

Usually it functions through committees, the most noteworthy being the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which was established by statute and hears appeals from ecclesiastical courts, prize courts, and courts from the colonies as well as some independent members of the Commonwealth.

Although prize courts are municipal courts, and their character and organization are thus determined by national tradition and law, they apply customary and conventional international law.

As Émilie had been armed as a merchant rather than a privateer, the Prize court seized her prizes and sold them for the benefit of the State, although their capture was declared to be legal.

Prize court, a municipal (national) court in which the legality of captures of goods and vessels at sea and related questions are determined.

In the 20th century, unrestricted sea warfare involving the destruction of merchant shipping has reduced the role of prize courts.

The United States has held no prize courts since 1899 for the additional reason of its more liberal policy of requisitioning foreign vessels with compensation rather than appropriating them as prizes.

If it is finally declared innocent and a prize court considers there was no probable cause for capture, the court may order damages to be paid.

Title in them passes immediately to the captor state and is not subject to condemnation by a prize court.

He has a miniature gym, which boasts of putting green, handball court, rowing machine, prize ring.

Only a prize court could determine whether particular items (let alone people, whom Northerners tenuously classified as contraband) were liable for confiscation.

Title to such vessels and their cargoes does not immediately pass to the captor state but, under international law, must be adjudicated by the captor state's prize court, which may condemn them as lawful prizes.