The Adventure
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia
[In admiralty. Libel for salvage. Claim -of forfeiture on behalf of United States. Decree of forfeiture by district court (decree nowhere reported; opinion not now accessible) reversed, and ship and cargo adjudged to libelants. Decree of circuit court for libelants reversed, on a different ground, by supreme court in The Adventure, 8 Cranch, (12 U. S.) 221.] Appeal from the district court of Norfolk.
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[In admiralty. Libel for salvage. Claim -of forfeiture on behalf of United States. Decree of forfeiture by district court (decree nowhere reported; opinion not now accessible) reversed, and ship and cargo adjudged to libelants. Decree of circuit court for libelants reversed, on a different ground, by supreme court in The Adventure, 8 Cranch, (12 U. S.) 221.] Appeal from the district court of Norfolk. The libellants filed their libel in the district court of Norfolk, in admiralty, praying that the ship Adventure and her cargo should be condemned and sold for their benefit, ■or that if it…
1Opinion of the Court
MARSHALL, Circuit Justice.
The only question made at the bar in this case is:— Are the ship Adventure and her cargo forfeited to the United States, as having contravened the act interdicting commercial intercourse between this country and Great Britain? Act March 1, 1809; 2 Story, Laws U. S. 1114-1120, [2 Stat. 528.] The Adventure was a British ship, captured by the Medusa, a French frigate; and presented to the libellants, who were the master, supercargo, and mariners, of the American brig Three Friends, which brig, with her cargo, had been previously captured and brunt by the same frigate.…
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