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§ 8851. Scope of chapter - (a) This chapter applies to all captures of vessels as...
§ 8852. Jurisdiction - (a) The United States district courts have original jurisdiction, exclusive...
§ 8853. Court in which proceedings brought - (a) If a prize is brought into a port of...
§ 8854. Effect of failure to start proceedings - (1) move for a monition to show cause why such...
§ 8855. Appointment of prize commissioners and special prize commissioners - (a) In each judicial district there may be not more...
§ 8856. Duties of United States attorney - (a) The interests of the United States in a prize...
§ 8857. Duties of commanding officer of capturing vessel - (a) The commanding officer of a vessel making a capture...
§ 8858. Duties of prize master - (1) deliver immediately to a prize commissioner the documents and...
§ 8859. Libel and proceedings by United States attorney - (a) Upon receiving the report of the prize master directed...
§ 8860. Duties of prize commissioners - (1) receive from the prize master the documents and papers...
§ 8861. Interrogation of witnesses by prize commissioners - Witnesses before the prize commissioners shall be questioned separately, on...
§ 8862. Duties of marshal - (1) keep in his custody all persons found on board...
§ 8863. Prize property appropriated for the use of the United States - (a) Any officer or agency designated by the President may...
§ 8864. Delivery of property on stipulation - (a) Prize property may be delivered to a claimant on...
§ 8865. Sale of prize - (a) The court shall order a sale of prize property...
§ 8866. Mode of making sale - (a) If a sale of prize property is ordered by...
§ 8867. Transfer of prize property to another district for sale - (a) In the case of any prize property ordered to...
§ 8868. Disposition of prize money - The net proceeds of all property condemned as prize shall...
§ 8869. Security for costs - The court may require any party to give security for...
§ 8870. Costs and expenses a charge on prize property - (a) Costs and expenses allowed by the court incident to...
§ 8871. Payment of costs and expenses from prize fund - (a) Payment may not be made from a prize fund...
§ 8872. Recaptures: award of salvage, costs, and expenses - (a) If a vessel or other property that has been...
§ 8873. Allowance of expenses to marshals - The marshal shall be allowed his actual and necessary expenses...
§ 8874. Payment of witness fees - If the court allows fees to any witness in a...
§ 8875. Commissions of auctioneers - (a) The Secretary of the Navy may establish a scale...
§ 8876. Compensation of prize commissioners and special prize commissioners - (a) Naval prize commissioners and naval special prize commissioners may...
§ 8877. Accounts of clerks of district courts - (a) The clerk of each district court, for the purpose...
§ 8878. Interfering with delivery, custody, or sale of prize property - Whoever willfully does, or aids or advises in the doing...
§ 8879. Powers of district court over prize property notwithstanding appeal - Notwithstanding an appeal, the district court may make and execute...
§ 8880. Appeals and amendments in prize causes - (a) A United States Court of Appeals may allow an...
§ 8881. Reciprocal privileges to cobelligerent - (a) A cobelligerent of the United States that consents to...