Prize Causes Act 1748

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Anno vicesimo secundo G E O R G I I II. Regis. An Act declaring the Authority of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty under the Great Seal ofGreat Britain , for receiving, hearing and determining Appeals in Causes of Prizes.

(22 Geo. 2) C A P. III.

'WHEREAS his Majesty, in order to bring the many Appeals that were or should be depending from Sentences in Causes of Prizes, pronounced in the Courts of Admiralty in this Kingdom, and in any of the Courts of Admiralty in his Majesty's Plantations inAmerica , and also in the Courts of Admiralty in Ireland , and all other his Majesty's Dominions abroad, to a speedy Determination, did by his Commission under the Great Seal, bearing Date at Westminster the eleventh Day of July in the twenty-second Year of his Reign, revoke a former Commission for receiving, hearing and determining such Appeals granted to all his Majesty's then Privy Counsellors, and all others his Majesty's Privy Counsellors then and for the time being, during his Pleasure; and did also, by the same Commission of the eleventh Day of July last, constitute and appoint all his Majesty's Privy Counsellors then and for the time being, as also Sir Thomas Parker , Knight, Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer ; Sir Martin Wright , Sir Thomas Denison and Sir Michael Foster , Knights, Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench ; Sir Thomas Abney , Sir Thomas Burnett and Sir Thomas Birch , Knights, Justices of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas; Charles Clarke, Edward Clive and Heneage Legge , Esquire, Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer ; and the Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer , Justices of his Majesty's Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas , and the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer for the Time being, to be his Majesty's Commissioners for receiving, hearing and determining such Appeals during his Majesty's Pleasure, with such Powers and Authorities as are therein contained: And whereas some Objections have been raised against the last mentioned Commission, on account of the Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer , the Justices of his Majesty's Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas , and the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer , who were not of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, being joined therein:' Now, for removing and avoiding the said Objections, and all other Objections and Doubts whatsoever relating to the said Commission; Be it enacted and...

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