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Captor
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Prize Court
sometimes supposed that if, when a prize has been captured, she is condemned, the prize belongs to the captors, but this is not quite accurate. It is true that under the old practice the captors applied for
Recapture
The act of retaking or recovering by capture especially the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor
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Letters of marque
would, by the effect of the prerogative, become a droit of Admiralty, and would belong, not to the captor, but to the Crown. To encourage merchants and others to fit out privateers or armed ships in time
Droits of admiralty
to the tenth part of the property captured on the seas has been relinquished in favour of the captors. Droits of Admiralty also included all unclaimed wreck, flotsam, jetsam, ligan and derelict, which are now dealt with
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