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NAVAL PRIZE ACT 1864 - SECT 37

37. A prize court, on proof of any offence against the law of nations, or
against this Act, or any Act relating to naval discipline, or against any
Order in Council or royal proclamation, or of any breach of Her Majesty's
instructions relating to prize, or of any act of disobedience to the orders of
[the Defence Council], or to the command of a superior officer, committed by
the captors in relation to any ship or goods taken as prize, or in relation to
any person on board any such ship, may, on condemnation, reserve the prize to
Her Majesty's disposal, notwithstanding any grant that may have been made by
Her Majesty in favour of captors.

Purchase by Secretary of State for public service of stores on board foreign
ships carrying stores to an enemy, and brought within a port of the United
Kingdom.

© 1864 Crown Copyright

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