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‘File 28/2 War. Prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf states’ [100v] (200/292)
The record is made up of 1 file (144 folios). It was created in 25 Oct 1939-28 Feb 1943. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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of the said ship (aircraft) (or the cargo of the said ship (aircraft)”), and
pronounced the said E.F., &c., to be joint recaptors of the said ship
(aircraft) (or of the cargo of the said ship (aircraft) and entitled to share
in the said part.
The President (or Judge) further decreed that the costs of the recaptors
of and incidental to this cause should be paid by the claimants, and that
the costs of E.F., &c., the said joint recaptors, should be paid by
(or such order as to costs as the Judge may make).
The President (or Judge) further ordered and directed that the said
value should be ascertained by appraisement of the said ship (aircraft)
(or the cargo of the said ship (aircraft) ) by the marshal, and decreed that
in default of payment by the claimants of the said part of the said value
so ascertained as aforesaid, and of the said costs within days
after the return of the said appraisement by the marshal, the said ship
(aircraft) (or the cargo of the said ship (aircraft) ) should be sold by the r r
marshal, and the proceeds of such sale paid into Court, and that the
said part and the said costs be paid to the recaptors out of
the said proceeds, subject to the right of the joint recaptors to share in
the said part.
O. \y i 8. (xxiii) In Joint Recapture.
Reserving Question to whom Due.
(Commencement as in Form (i).)
The President (or Judge, &c. (proceed as in last preceding Form to
words of the value of the said ship (aircraft), or the cargo of the said
ship (aircraft), and then proceed), reserving the question to whom such
salvage is due and further reserving all questions of costs.
o. xxxn. r. 8. (xxiv) Rejecting Claim of alleged Joint Recaptors and pronouncing for
sole Title or Interest.
(Commencement as in Form (i).)
(Proceed as in Form (xiii) until the end of the clause decreeing restitu
tion, and continue) and rejected the claim of the said E.F., &c., to share
as joint recaptors in the said part (and condemned the said
E.F., &c., in the costs of the said C.D., &e., occasioned by the said claim
of E.F., &c., to share as joint recaptors).
(The rest of this decree is as in Form (xiii).)
o. XXXIII.
Naval Prize
Act, 1864 ,
ss. 42 , 43 .
(xxv) In Prize Bounty.
(Commencement as in Form (i).)
The President (or Judge), having heard the notice of motion and
evidence thereon, and having heard counsel for the applicants (name
describe them), and for (any other parties appearing), pronounced
declared that the said applicants being the (or some of the) officers
crew of His Majesty’s ship , , commander,
entitled to prize bounty as being actually present at the taking
destroying) of the armed ship , belonging at the time of
capture (or destruction) thereof to an enemy of His Majesty, to wit (the
King of , or as the case may be), and (if head money is given)
that at the beginning of the engagement there were on board the said
enemy’s ship persons, and that the amount of prize bounty
aforesaid is the sum of
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The file comprises copies of official notices and correspondence relating to prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (the capture of enemy vessels and cargo) during the Second World War, based on the understanding, as described in a letter from the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. to his Agents, dated 16 November 1939, that, ‘as Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. are on the side of Great Britain the Crown has the right to exercise prize jurisdiction in these States’ (ff 2-3).
The file includes:
- two printed copies of a booklet entitled Provisional Rules and Orders, 1939: Prize Courts: Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. dated September 2, 1939. Made under Section 3 of the Prize Courts Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. C. 39) (ff 6-59, ff 61-114);
- a printed copy of an Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. entitled Reprisals for restricting German Commerce , dated 27 November 1939 (ff 117-118), and a press statement, issued by the Press Section of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, dated 28 November 1939, relating to the issue of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. (f 120);
- correspondence relating to a Danish tanker, the Eleonora Maersk (also spelt Elonora Maersk and Eleanora Mearsk ) which arrived in Bahrain from Iran, in April 1940. In a letter to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior) the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) stated that the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. has received instructions from the East Indies Commander-in-Chief that the vessel should be sent to Karachi, presumably as prize (ff 121-124);
- a Department of Commerce notification, dated 31 August 1940, stating that measures taken against German shipping can now be applied to Italian shipping (f 131);
- communications relating to prize procedure in respect of Finland, Hungary, Rumania [Romania] and Japan (ff 139-142).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (144 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 144-145) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 146; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-6, f 60, and ff 119-143, the intermediate folios being skipped; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: two printed booklets are present in the file (see ff 6-59 and ff 61-114); these booklets each have their own original printed pagination sequence. The file notes at the back of the file (144-145) have also been paginated using pencil.
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- IOR/R/15/2/675
- Title
- ‘File 28/2 War. Prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf states’
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- front, front-i, 2r:121v, 123r:145v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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