Legal Definition and Related Resources of Prize Courts

admiralty courts having jurisdiction during times of war to adjudicate upon captures made at sea.

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Prize Courts in Historical Law

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Bourguignon, Henry J. The First Federal Court: The Federal Appellate Prize Court of the American Revolution, 1775-1787. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 122. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1977.

Miles, Edward L. Global Ocean Politics: The Decision Process at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 1973-1982. The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1998.

Warren, Gordon H. Fountain of Discontent: The Trent Affair and Freedom of the Seas. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1981.

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