GerrY ruBIN 359 only from mid-1916, as the war dragged on, that "national interest" claims by the executive, used by officials to justify property requisition or the payment of minimal compensation to property-deprived owners, began to possess less traction in influencing judicial decisions in those cases where the livelihoods or grievances of munitions workers were not at stake. Did the judges twist in the wind? there is at least a prima facie case that they did so. But then came the War Compensation Court where the legacy of the war exigency, reflected in its awards based not on market value but on the less generous direct loss principles, was to be felt in the courts for another eleven years after the Armistice.