prize court
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noun
a court whose function it is to adjudicate on prizes taken in war.
Origin of prize court
An Americanism dating back to 1785–95
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The prize-court will decide what is to be done with your cargo.
Banzai!Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
If such a ship opposes the prize-court then it must be treated as an enemy ship.
Our Navy in the WarLawrence Perry
If the Trent had been taken into port, a prize-court must have liberated the prisoners.
Let us hope that the prize-court and its attendant officials did not absorb too big a share of the proceeds!
A few were released, but the larger part were condemned by a prize-court and sold.
Young Peoples' History of the War with SpainPrescott Holmes
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