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The Confederate Law Of Prize, John Paul Jones Jan 2023

The Confederate Law Of Prize, John Paul Jones

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This essay describes the prize law of the Confederate States of America. Due to the Union’s blockade of the South’s coastline, Confederate judges heard very few prize cases. But when they did, they closely hewed to the prize law of the United States.