Prize courts

Courts having jurisdiction to adjudicate upon captures made at sea in time of war, and to condemn the captured property as prize if lawfully subject to that sentence. In England, the admiralty courts have jurisdiction as prize courts, distinct from the jurisdiction on the instance side. In America, the federal district courts have jurisdiction in cases of prize. 1 Kent, Comm. 101-103, 353-360. See Penballow v. Doane, 3 Dall. 91, 1 L. Ed. 507; Maley v. Shattuck, 3 Cranch, 488, 2 L. Ed. 498; Cushing v. Laird, 107 U. S. 69, 2 Sup. Ct. 196, 27 In Ed. 391,

Defined under Prize in Black's Law Dictionary.