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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1873 - SECT 5

5. The High Court of Admiralty of England... shall have jurisdiction to try
and condemn or restore any vessel, slave, goods, and effects, alleged to be
seized, detained, or forfeited, in pursuance of this Act, and on restoring the
same to award such damages in respect of the visitation, seizure, and
detention of such vessel, goods, and effects, and of any person on board such
vessel, and in respect of any act or thing done in relation to such
visitation, seizure, or detention, or in respect of any of such matters, and
in any case to make such order as to costs as, subject to the provisions of
this Act and of any existing slave trade treaty, the court may think just.

Provided that nothing in this section shall give to any court any jurisdiction
inconsistent with any existing slave trade treaty over a vessel which is shown
to such court to be the vessel of any foreign state and which has not been
engaged within British jurisdiction in the slave trade, but where any
vessel of a foreign state is liable to be condemned by a British slave court,
such court shall have the same jurisdiction as if she were a British vessel.

Each of the said courts shall have the same jurisdiction in regard to any
person who has been seized, either at sea or on land, on the ground that he
has or is suspected to have been detained as a slave, for the purpose of the
slave trade, as the court would have under this section if he had been so
detained on board a vessel that was seized and brought in for adjudication.

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