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prize court

noun

  1. a court whose function it is to adjudicate on prizes taken in war.


prize court

noun

  1. law a court having jurisdiction to determine how property captured at sea in wartime is to be distributed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of prize court1

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95
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Example Sentences

After some days I was taken in a motor-lorry to the Prize Court.

He insisted that vessels seized should be tried in a Prize Court.

It was his further duty to have brought her before a prize court.

As soon as a vessel is seized she must be conducted to a port where a Prize Court is sitting.

The whole of the crew of the prize are, as a rule, to be kept on board and to be brought before the Prize Court.

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