Abstract

VAN NIEKERK, JP. Of naval courts martial and prize claims: Some legal consequences of commodore Johnstone's secret mission to the Cape of Good Hope and the "battle" of Saldanha Bay, 1781 (Part 1). Fundamina (Pretoria) [online]. 2015, vol.21, n.2, pp.392-456. ISSN 2411-7870.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2411-7870/2015/v21n2a11.

Commodore Johnstone's secret mission to the Cape of Good Hope in 1781 had a surprisingly large number of legal consequences, not only in England but also at the Cape. In the main they concerned two matters, namely naval law, more specifically intra-naval immunity, and prize law, more specifically, the question of joint captures.

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