SINCE 1828
vice-admiralty court
nounDefinition of vice-admiralty court
: a British Admiralty court established in a colony beyond the seas in which the governor of the colony in his capacity as vice admiral exercises his judicial authority for the trial of maritime cases of a civil nature including prize cases
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