“ The prize was adjudged to the last captors, by the decree of the court below, from which the first captors appealed to this court.
Charleton, for the appellants, contended, that the prize interest vested in the first captors. He argued, that the opinions of eminent civilians, and the practice of the continental nations of Europe, ought to prevail, rather than the decisions of the British courts of prize; which last are founded on reasons of commercial and naval policy, peculiar to England. ”