See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

CAPTURE (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)  , in See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

international See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the taking See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession by a belligerent See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel of an enemy or neutral See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant or non-fighting See also:

• SHIP

ship . If an enemy ship is captured she becomes forth-with lawful See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize (q.v.); when a neutral ship, the belligerent See also:

• COMMANDER

commander, in See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case her papers are not conclusive, has a right to See also:

• SEARCH, or VISIT AND SEARCH

search her . If he finds See also:

• CONTRABAND (Fr. contrebande, from contra, against, and bannum, Low Lat. for " proclamation ")

contraband on See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board or the papers or See also:

• CARGO (Span. for " loading," from Lat. carries, car)

cargo or circumstances excite any serious suspicion in his mind, which the See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the ship has been unable to dispel, he places an officer and a few of his See also:

• CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
• CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)

crew on board and sends her to the nearest See also:

• PORT

port where there is a prize See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court for trial .