Legal glossary

“prize”

Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
  1. The Naval and Aircraft Prize Act, 1971 · s. 2

    (h) "prize" means anything which, subject to this Act and the rules made thereunder, may be subjected to adjudication and includes a ship or an aircraft and goods carried therein, irrespective of whether the ship is captured at sea or seized in port or whether the aircraft is on or over land or sea at the time of capture or seizure;
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