captor
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Before the captor could take title to a vessel, he would have to bring the ship into port and have it condemned before a prize court, which would determine the lawfulness of the capture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Under prize law, the vessels and cargo become the property of the captor and would be auctioned for profit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
That was the case with the tall and lean Ebrahim Azizi, who appears as Eghbal, the man the group believes was their ruthless captor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
The IAR said it took a year to persuade the bears' captor to agree to their release.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
My captor, whose name, I gathered, was Thomas Pope, looked hurt.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Yet they proved fearsome captors, armed with long spears tipped with shark teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
In some moments, Petrović even managed to see the humanity in his captors, despite his discomfort and constant fear of being killed.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings shared an emotional video pleading with their mother’s potential captors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
The family of the kidnapped mother of a top US TV news anchor made a new plea for information from her captors on Thursday, after investigators said they believed the 84-year-old was still alive.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
That night, I dreamed the salt statues came to life and set on our captors with their swords, but every one of the statues had the face of the dead man.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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