Instance Court
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
That division or department of the court of admiralty which exercises all the orcinary adiniralty jurisdiction, with the single exception of prize cases, the latter belonging to the branch called the “Prize Court.” The term is sometimes used in American law for purposes of explanation, but has no proper application to admiralty courts in the United States, whero the powers of both instance and prize courts are conferred without any distinction.
3 Dall. 6; 1 Gall. 568; 8 Kent, Comm. 355, 378.