prize and capture
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 73 U.S. 759 - Union Insurance Company v. United States · 1867Most cited · 66 citing opinions
in ordinary use the words 'prizes and capture' refer, doubtless, to captures on water as maritime prize; but in the section under consideration here they plainly refer to property taken on land as well as on water, and the duties prescribed to the President include the taking of this property by civil process as well as by naval or military force, and sanction proceedings for confiscation and condemnation in civil courts without regard to the mode of seizure
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