[775] See Bluntschli, § 835; Perels, § 51; Geffcken in Holtzendorff, IV. p. 763; Rivier, II. p. 431. See also § 25 of the Prussian Regulations (1864) concerning Naval Prizes, and article 31 of the Japanese Naval Prize Law.
[776] See Holland, Prize Law, § 133, and U.S. Naval War Code, article 42; the Betsey (1799), 1 C. Rob. 332.
[777] On this doctrine, see below, § [400, p. 499, note 1].
[778] See Holland, Prize Law, § 134, and the case of the James Cook (1810), Edwards, 261.
[779] 3 Wallace, § 14.
[780] 3 Wallace, 559.
[781] 5 Wallace, 1.
[782] 5 Wallace, 28.
[783] See Parliamentary Papers, Miscellaneous, N. 1 (1900), "Correspondence regarding the Seizure of the British Vessels Springbok and Peterhoff by the United States Cruisers in 1863."
It is true that the majority of authorities[784] assert the illegality of these judgments of the American Prize Courts, but it is a fact that Great Britain at the time recognised as correct the principles which are the basis of these judgments.