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Instead of backing down, the ministry raised more fears by moving frontier troops to the seaports, supposedly to cut costs, while Parliament strengthened the notorious vice-admiralty courts and created a centralized customs office for America.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Special vice-admiralty courts, which did not use juries, tried all violations of the Navigation Acts, so colonial lawbreakers could not count on sympathetic neighbors to protect them from convictions.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

This act, meant to strengthen enforcement of customs laws, also established vice-admiralty courts where the crown could prosecute customs violators without a jury.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

However, the Sugar Act required violators to be tried in vice-admiralty courts.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

A court of vice-admiralty having been assembled, she was condemned as a legal prize, and part of her cargo* was in a few days sold by public auction.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 by Collins, David