Legal Opinion

The United States v. La Vengeance

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided August 11, 1796PublishedCited by 44 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

3 U.S. 297

3 Dall. 297

1 L.Ed. 610

The United States

v.

La Vengeance

August Term, 1796.

1

Error from the Circuit Court for the district of New York. It appeared on the return of the record, that La Vengeance, a French privateer, had captured and carried into New York, a Spanish ship, called La Princessa de Asturias; and that thereupon Don Diego Pintardo, the owner of the prize, filed a Libel in the District Court, complaining of the capture; alledging that La Vengeance was illegally fitted out within the United States; and praying restitution and damages: but on a claim, exhibited in behalf of the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. United States v. La VengeanceSupreme Court of the United States · 1796

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