Prize
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 2 U.S. 1 - Miller v. The Ship Resolution · 1781Most cited · 21 citing opinions
Prize is generally used as a technical term to express a legal capture; and Congress having adopted it in framing of the ordinance, the general sense or acceptation of it must determine its import and signification.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Prize”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Prize” — 37 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1781–1871
prize' ... 'evidently means maritime capture effected by maritime force only,—ships and cargoes taken by ships.