Prize – A French privateer having captured a Scots ship, took a quantity of goods out of her, and some money from the ship-master, and upon payment of a ransom agreed upon, allowed the ship to depart with a ransom brief; the privateer having continued upon the coast, and being there captured by a British ship of war the money and goods taken by force, as well as the ransom, were to be restored by the captors.
[1715] UKHL Robertson – 130, (1715) Robertson 130
Bailii
Scotland, Transport
Updated: 04 January 2022; Ref: scu.553487