Ransom Bill
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A contract for payment of ransom of a captured vessel, with stipulations of safe-conduct, if she pursue a certain course and arrive in a certain time. If found out of time or course, the safeconduct is void.
Wheaton, Int. Law, 107*.
The payment cannot be enforced in England, during war, by an action on the contract, but can in this country.
1 Kent, Comm. 104, 105; 4 Wash. C. C. (U. S.) 141; 2 Gall. (U. S.) 325.