Capture
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The taking of property by one belligerent from another.
See 6 Allen (Mass.) 373.
It is a taking by the military power, as distinguished from a taking by the civil power, which is known as "seizure."
35 Ga. 344.
It originally included only a taking by one belligerent from another, but has been enlarged in usage to include taking by pirates, or the taking by a belligerent of neutral goods.
6 Allen (Mass.) 373; 6 Wall. (U. S.) 10.