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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 5 — THE REVENGE. (continued 2)

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"Within the places of safety", such as ports or fleets. "Movable goods carried intra praesidia of the enemy become clearly and fully his property, and consequently, if retaken, vest entirely in the recaptors. The same is to be said of ships, carried into the enemy's ports, and afterwards recaptured". Bynkershoek, Quaestiones Juris Publici, lib. 1, ch. 5.

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