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The Prize Game: Lawful Looting on the High Seas in the Days of Fighting Sail. By Donald A. Petrie. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 217, Index. $25.95.
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1 It should be noted, however, that the practice of naval commanders at sea revealed flagrant and open violations of traditional prize law, especially where captures occurred far from ports hospitable to prize proceedings (p. 143).
2 In the United States, 30 Stat. 1007 (1899); in the United Kingdom, Prize Act, 1948, 12 & 13 Geo. 5, ch. 9 (Eng.).
3 See, e.g., Uniform Code of Military Justice, Art. 103, 10 U.S.C. §903 (1994) (stating that captured enemy property belongs to the United States); Morrison v. United States, 492 F.2d 1219 (Ct. CI. 1974).
4 Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, Art.23 (g), annexed to Convention [No.IV] Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, Oct. 18, 1907, 36 Stat. 2277, 1 Bevans 631; see also Downey, William Gerald, Captured Enemy Property, 44 AJIL 488 (1950.)Google Scholar.
5 Bartlett, John, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations 266 n.7 (Kaplan, Justin ed., 16th ed. 1992)Google Scholar.
6 The Brig Amy Warwick, 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635 (1863)Google Scholar.