---
kind: "unit"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
key: "stC/ptIV/ch883"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 883"
heading: "Prize"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/stC-ptIV-ch883"
sections_count: 31
---

# Chapter 883 — Prize

Title 10 — Armed Forces › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › Part IV — General Administration

## Sections

- [§8851. Scope of chapter](/usc/10/8851.md)
- [§8852. Jurisdiction](/usc/10/8852.md)
- [§8853. Court in which proceedings brought](/usc/10/8853.md)
- [§8854. Effect of failure to start proceedings](/usc/10/8854.md)
- [§8855. Appointment of prize commissioners and special prize commissioners](/usc/10/8855.md)
- [§8856. Duties of United States attorney](/usc/10/8856.md)
- [§8857. Duties of commanding officer of capturing vessel](/usc/10/8857.md)
- [§8858. Duties of prize master](/usc/10/8858.md)
- [§8859. Libel and proceedings by United States attorney](/usc/10/8859.md)
- [§8860. Duties of prize commissioners](/usc/10/8860.md)
- [§8861. Interrogation of witnesses by prize commissioners](/usc/10/8861.md)
- [§8862. Duties of marshal](/usc/10/8862.md)
- [§8863. Prize property appropriated for the use of the United States](/usc/10/8863.md)
- [§8864. Delivery of property on stipulation](/usc/10/8864.md)
- [§8865. Sale of prize](/usc/10/8865.md)
- [§8866. Mode of making sale](/usc/10/8866.md)
- [§8867. Transfer of prize property to another district for sale](/usc/10/8867.md)
- [§8868. Disposition of prize money](/usc/10/8868.md)
- [§8869. Security for costs](/usc/10/8869.md)
- [§8870. Costs and expenses a charge on prize property](/usc/10/8870.md)
- [§8871. Payment of costs and expenses from prize fund](/usc/10/8871.md)
- [§8872. Recaptures: award of salvage, costs, and expenses](/usc/10/8872.md)
- [§8873. Allowance of expenses to marshals](/usc/10/8873.md)
- [§8874. Payment of witness fees](/usc/10/8874.md)
- [§8875. Commissions of auctioneers](/usc/10/8875.md)
- [§8876. Compensation of prize commissioners and special prize commissioners](/usc/10/8876.md)
- [§8877. Accounts of clerks of district courts](/usc/10/8877.md)
- [§8878. Interfering with delivery, custody, or sale of prize property](/usc/10/8878.md)
- [§8879. Powers of district court over prize property notwithstanding appeal](/usc/10/8879.md)
- [§8880. Appeals and amendments in prize causes](/usc/10/8880.md)
- [§8881. Reciprocal privileges to cobelligerent](/usc/10/8881.md)