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prize court
A municipal court that, in accordance with international law, deals with questions relating to prize, i.e. ships, aircraft, or goods captured during wartime at sea or in port by the naval or air forces of a belligerent power. Prize law entitles the belligerent state to expropriate not only enemy vessels and goods but also neutral property suspected of carrying contraband or running a blockade. The Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 constituted the High Court a prize court; jurisdiction in prize was vested in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division until its transfer in 1970 to the Admiralty Court (part of the Queen’s Bench Division). Prize appeals go to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. |