Prize Act 1779
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1779 c. 5 |
(19 Geo. 3) C A P. V.
'WHEREAS his Majesty, by Order in Council, dated the twenty-ninth Day ofJuly , one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, was pleased to order that General Reprisals be granted against the Ships, Goods, and Subjects, of the French King, and that as well all his Majesty's Fleets and Ships, as also all other Ships and Vessels that shall be commissioned, by Letters of Marque or General Reprisals or otherwise, by the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain , shall and may lawfully seize all Ships, Vessels, and Goods, belonging to the French King or his Subjects, or others inhabiting within any of the Territories of the French King, and bring the same to Judgment in any of his Majesty's Courts of Admiralty within his Majesty's Dominions: And whereas it is expedient that the several Provisions of an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, (intituled, An Act for the Relief of the Captors of Prizes, with respect to the bringing and landing certain Prize Goods in this Kingdom ), should be extended in like Manner to all Prize Goods which have been, or may be, taken from the French , in pursuance of his Majesty's said Order in Council;' may it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authorityof the same, That the said recited Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, and all the Articles, Clauses, and Provisions therein, shall extend, and be construed to extend, to all Prize Goods which have been taken from theFrench since the twenty-ninth Day of July , one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, or which shall hereafter be taken, during the Continuance of the present Hostilities with France , by any of his Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, or by any private or other Ship or Vessel having Commission or other Authority from the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain , or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain , for the Time being, for that Purpose.
II Such Prizes, after Condemnation, to be...
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