Capture at sea; Contraband of war; Privateering; Prize law; Prizes (Property captured at sea)
Part 4. 1603 to 1688 50
a. Laws--Proclamations, Puritan Ordinances,
Prize Bounty, Piracy, Navigation Acts,
Spoil on Decks, Jure Coronae, Droits,
of Admiralty.
b. Administration--Adjudication Required,
Admirals Jurisdiction, Cinque Ports,
Civil War, Puritanism, Restoration,
Trading Companies, Significance.
_Chapter IV. Great Britain, Recent Laws._
Part 1. 1688 to 1864 56
Grants by statute, Queen Anne's Statute,
Lord Loughborough's Opinion, Later Acts,
Acts of 1793, of 1812, of 1815, Ransom
Forbidden, Slave Trade, Crimean War.
Part 2. 1864 to 1913 64
Permanent Statutes, Naval Agency and
Distribution Act, Naval Prize Act of
1864, Naval Instructions, Duties of
captors, Sharers of Prize, Recapture.
_Chapter V. Great Britain, Recent Administration._
Part 1. Prize Courts 70
Lord High Admiral, Admiralty Courts, Admiralty
in Commission, Struggle with Common Law,
Jenkins, Mansfield, Stowell,
Vice Admiralty Courts, Commissioning
Prize Courts, High Court of
Justice, Appellate Authorities,
Lord High Admiral, Chancellor,
Delegates of Appeal, Judicial
Committee, of Privy Council,
International Prize Court for Appeals.
Part 2. Theory of Distribution 78
a. Relation of State and Individual in War--War
by State Authority, Rousseau's
Theory, Grotian Theory, English
Practice.
b. Reprisal--Private, Public, General
reprisal, Declaration of Paris.
c. State Title to Prize--Original Title in
State, Phillimore, Holland, Brougham,
State can return prize without cause,
Stowell, The Elsebe.
d. Adjudication of prizes--Jay Letter,
Competent Court.
e. Method of Distribution--Benefits
received; bounty, salvage, prize money.
Part 3. Prize Bounty 91
Headmoney, Conditions of Giving.
Part 4. Prize Salvage 92
Pirates, Neutral vessels, Subjects Vessels,
Change of Title, Allies, Summary.
Part 5. Prize Money 98
Division among Men, Among Allies, Vessels
Entitled to Share, Joint Captors,
Privateers, Associated Vessels, Tenders,
Boats, Transports, Joint Land and Naval
Captures, Non-commissioned Captors,
Forfeiture of Prize Money.
_Chapter VI. Great Britain, Significance of Present Law._
Part 1. Causes of Law 106
Imperial Power, Naval Supremacy, Commercial
Dependence, Governmental Control, to
encourage sea men.
Part 2. Effects of Prize Money 109
a. On the Navy--When privateering legal,
since Declaration of Paris, does
not increase efficiency, commercial
war.
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