Text Appearing Before Image: of Prize Courts and jurdisdiction had, however, been dealt with earlier—in 1864, in 1891, and 1895 ; by section 4 of the Judicature Act of 1891 the High Court in England was declared to be a Prize Court, and all causes and matters within the jurisdiction of the High Court as a Prize Court were assigned to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of that Court. On the hearing of his first case—the Chile—Sir Samuel Evans began his judgment with these words :
I am sure we all deplore the causes which render it necessary for a Prize Court to sit again within these realms after the happy lapse of about 60 years, and as you, Mr. Attorney-General, have said, in times pust, and particularly during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century, tho English Prize Courts pronounced judgments and gave decisions which commanded general confidence, and received the admiration of all countrios interested in the law of nations. Our predecessors have set splendid
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A SITTING OF THE PRIZE COURT Presided over by Sir Samuel Evans, G.C.B.
examples and established high traditions, and the Prize Court of the present day, with the assistance of the Bar, will do its best—it cannot do more—to follow those examples and uphold those traditions.
In the case of the Corsican Prince, on February 22, 1915, Sir Samuel Evans tells us something more about the character of the Britisch Prize Court. The Prize Court Rules have always been framed especially for the Court and made by the Privy Council in recent years under the Prize Courts Act, 1894, and
not by the Rule Committee which frames the the rules for the Hight court. Rules were issued on August 5, 1914, assimilating the form of the proceedings to the course of a civili action. But when there are no rules the practice of the old High Court of Admiralty , or such other practice as the President directs, is followed. The Powers of the court are set forth by Mr. Justice Sotry (who said Sir Samauel Evans, " as an exponent on treaties and judgements
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