Excerpt from Notes on the Principles and Practice of Prize Courts These Notes originally appeared as an Appendix to the first and second volumes of Wheaton's Admiralty Reports. The circumstances under which they were prepared are detailed in an extract from the life of Judge Story.' They afford a remarkable proof of the zeal of the eminent Judge in the promotion of every thing connected with the science of Jurisprudence; of the liberality with which he placed at the disposal of others the stores of his own erudition and of his high opinion of, and regard for, the distinguished reporter, whose fame as a jurist is only second to his own. The continuance of the same want of any work on the Practice of the Courts of Prize, which was the cause of the original publication of these notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.