Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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of Prize Courts and jurdisdiction had, however,
been dealt with earlier—in 1864, in 1891, and
1895 ; by section 4 of the Judicature Act of
1891 the High Court in England was declared to
be a Prize Court, and all causes and matters
within the jurisdiction of the High Court as a
Prize Court were assigned to the Probate,
Divorce and Admiralty Division of that Court.
On the hearing of his first case—the Chile—Sir
Samuel Evans began his judgment with these
words :

I am sure we all deplore the causes which render it
necessary for a Prize Court to sit again within these realms
after the happy lapse of about 60 years, and as you,
Mr. Attorney-General, have said, in times pust, and
particularly during the latter part of the eighteenth
century and the early part of the nineteenth century,
tho English Prize Courts pronounced judgments and
gave decisions which commanded general confidence, and
received the admiration of all countrios interested in the
law of nations. Our predecessors have set splendid


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