IMMEMORIAL RIGHT
CAPTURING OF PRIZES LAW EXPOUNDED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. An exposition of the law relating to the seizure of ships was given by the Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason. The right to seizure does not in any way arise under Imperial legislation or other legislation, he said. It arises as an immemorial right of war —it arises from the law of nations. But by international law, seizure does not transfer the property in a ship. The ship must be brought before a Prize Court which is held in the capital of the country of capture. This Prize Court really may be said to administer the international law, for it is under that law that a ship is condemned by the court as a prize. When ships are seized at sea, prize money is paid by the Crown to the crew of the capturing ship, but that is entirely a matter between the Government and the navy. The paying of this prize money is a very ancient institution, but the details have been altered from time to time. Presumably no question of this kind arises when a ship is in harbour.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 11 August 1941, Page 4
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