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Prize Cases, 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635 (1863), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862 during the American Civil War.The Supreme Court's decision declared the blockade of the Southern ports ordered by President Abraham Lincoln constitutional.
Talbot v. Seeman, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 1 (1801), was a United States Supreme Court case. It involved maritime law, specifically the circumstances under which salvage rights attach to a neutral vessel captured by enemy forces and then recaptured by the United States Navy.
Case name Citation Summary United States v. Segui: 35 U.S. 306 (1836) upholding the validity of a Spanish land grant in Florida: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge: 36 U.S. 420 (1837) Contract Clause of the Constitution: The Amistad: 40 U.S. 518 (1841) slave trade and slave ownership Swift v. Tyson: 41 U.S. 1 (1842)
Blanche towing Pique, a French frigate captured as a British prize in 1795. In admiralty law prizes (from the Old French prise, "taken, seized" [1]) are equipment, vehicles, vessels, and cargo captured during armed conflict. The most common use of prize in this sense is the capture of an enemy ship and its cargo as a prize of war.
The owners of the vessels appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing a centuries-long tradition of nations exempting fishing vessels from prize capture, even during war. At the time of capture, neither vessel had evidence of aiding the enemy, no arms were found on board, and no attempts were made to run the blockade or to resist capture.
Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., 88 F. Supp. 2d 116, (S.D.N.Y. 1999), aff'd 210 F.3d 88 (2d Cir. 2000), more widely known as the Pepsi Points case, is an American contract law case regarding offer and acceptance. The case was brought in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1999; its judgment was written by Kimba Wood.
In the Prize Cases, 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635 (1863) the Supreme Court held, 5-4, that the blockade of the Southern ports ordered by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War was constitutional. The blockade of the South resulted in the capture of dozens of American and foreign ships, both those attempting to run the highly efficient ...
The International Prize Court was an international court proposed at the beginning of the 20th century, to hear prize cases.An international agreement to create it, the Convention Relative to the Creation of an International Prize Court, was made at the Second Hague Conference in 1907 but never came into force.