Commissions of privateers do not extend to the capture of private property on land; a right not even granted to men-of-war. Private armed ships are not within the terms of a capitulation protecting private property generally.
·noun Privacy; retirement. II. Private ·noun The private parts; the genitals. III. Private ·noun O...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The proper designation of a soldier serving in the ranks of the army, holding no special position. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Propriety; correctness. II. Property ·vt To invest which properties, or qualities. III. Prope...
To make a property of any one; to make him a conveniency, tool, or cat's paw; to use him as one's ow...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Understood by captains having the key, but totally incomprehensible to other persons. ...
Not only those who have an absolute property in ships and goods, but those also who have but a quali...
Attestations, letters of advice, invoices, to show that a ship really belongs to the subjects of a n...