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prize court

a court that decides how captured property, esp. that taken at sea in wartime, is to be distributed

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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