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Prize law - United States

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    An ordinance, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful

    United States | Date: [1781]
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    An ordinance, relative to the capture and condemnation of prizes

    United States | Date: [1781]
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    The Case of the sloop Active, &c

    | Date: 1779]
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    A Report of the opinions of the judges in the important cause of Penhallow et al. against Doane's administrators , delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, at February term, 1795, on an appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of New Hampshire. Taken by permission, from the notes of the judges.

    | Date: 1795
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    Extracts from the Journals of Congress, relative to the capture and condemnation of prizes, and the fitting out privateers together with the rules and regulations of the navy, and instructions to the commanders of private ships of war.

    Continental Corporation USA | Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]

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