REPORTS ОР CASE E S ARGUED AND DETERMINED BEFORE THE MOST NOBLE AND RIGHT HONOURABLE IN Prize Caules: ALSO ON APPEAL TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL : VOLUME I. CONTAINING THE JUDGMENTS IN JUNE 1809 WITH AN APPENDIX. CONTAINING ORDERS IN COUNCIL, NOTIFICATIONS, INSTRUCTIONS, &c. BY THOMAS HARMAN ACTON, Esq. OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE. LONDON: PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, LAW-PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, FOR J. BUTTERWORTH, LAW BOOKSELLER, FLEET-STREET, ADVERTISEMENT, IT T has been long a fubject of regret, that the decifions in the High Court of Appeals have never yet been published, notwithstanding many of them are of very confiderable importance, and involve queftions of national policy and general principles of jurisprudence: The defign of this work, therefore, requires no other apology. The Author had at first proposed to publish only the most material of thofe cafes which issued from the High Court of Admiralty or the Vice Ad miralty Courts, and which are determined by the Lords Commiffioners of Appeal in Prize Causes. It was afterwards fuggefted, that he might with propriety include in this work, cafes upon appeal from various other Courts throughout our colonies and dependencies, which are referred to the decifion of His Majefty in Council, In undertaking this tafk, he has been actuated by a fincere defire to be serviceable in his profeffion; a 2 |