Booty

war, is the capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an enemy on the sea. After booty has been in complete possession of the enemy for twenty-four hours, it becomes absolutely his, without any right of postliminy in favour of the original owner, partic- Com. 110. The right to the booty, Pothier says, belongs to the sovereign, but sometimes the right of the sovercign or the public is transferred to the suldiers to encourage them.

Tr. du Droit de Propriété, part 1, c. 2, art. 1,§ 2; Burl. Nat. and ‘Pol. Law, vol. ii, part 4, c.7,n. 12..