Privateer
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 2 U.S. 19 - Miller v. The Ship Resolution · 1781Most cited · 2 citing opinions
limits of authority
A privateer is not authorized to capture every vessel found on the high sea: She is commissioned to capture only such ships as are the property of the enemy. Every ship indeed may, in time of war, be brought to and examined; but she is not to be seized and captured, without the captors have just grounds to think she is the property of an enemy