Volkert Hendricks, Late Master of The Ship Katherine of Amsterdam, and Peter Willem Van Lankern of Amsterdam, Merchant, and The Owners of The Said Ship Katherine and Her Cargo v Wm Cunningham, Merchant, Glasgow: HL 2 Jul 1783

Paton Capture – Jurisdiction.- Circumstances in which held that a Dutch vessel, while coming from a French colony, with the produce of that island to Amsterdam, was held to have been illegally captured as a neutral, neither the vessel nor the cargo, nor her papers, shewing that she was an adopted French vessel. Opinion indicated, though the objection to the competency was waived, that the Admiralty Court of Scotland had no jurisdiction to try such a question, but that it belonged to the High Admiralty Court of England.

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[1783] UKHL 2 – Paton – 609, (1783) 2 Paton 609

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Updated: 29 May 2022; Ref: scu.562106