Court of admiralty

COURT OF ADMIRALTY. A court having jurisdiction of all maritime causes. Vide Admiralty; Courts of the United States; Instance Courts; Prize Court; 2 Chit. Pr. 508 to 538.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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of the court of admiralty in England, but into the nature

MARITIME OILFIELD CONTRACTS RECONSIDERED

At the turn of the seventeenth century, the Lord High Admiral had the power to appoint judges in the High Court of Admiralty in London.

A voyage to Newfoundland "for the reformation of abuses in that Country and upon the coasts thereof": A letter in the family papers of Sir Henry Salusbury, drafted by Richard Whitbourne (?)

law, parties are entitled to a jury; as a court of admiralty, there is

THE LIMITATION OF SHIPOWNER'S LIABILITY ACT AS AN INDEPENDENT BASIS FOR FEDERAL JURISDICTION?

They were recently discovered at the National Archives (Kew) among the thousands of volumes that make up the prize court papers of the High Court of Admiralty.

The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux

proceedings in a court of admiralty. (61) Owners who denied that the

The constitutionality of civil forfeiture

507 (1795), Supreme Court Justice Iredell declared that 'a Court of Admiralty in one nation, can carry into effect the determination of the Court of Admiralty of another.' Id.

Maritime law

The British High Court of Admiralty's early jurisdiction was very broad.

A trying balance: determining the trier of fact in hybrid admiralty-civil cases

Robertson, Our High Court of Admiralty and its Sometimes Peculiar Relationship with Congress, 55 ST.

Waiting for Gaudet charting a course after Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend

Costello, author of The Law of Habeas Corpus in Ireland, presents this complete history of the Court of Admiralty in Ireland.

The court of admiralty of Ireland, 1575-1893

In reaching this conclusion, the Court stated that "no court is better adapted than a court of admiralty to administer precisely such relief' and pointed out that admiralty courts are experienced with maritime liens and in rem proceedings, which resemble limitation actions in many ways.

A sea of confusion: the Shipowner's Limitation of Liability Act as an independent basis for admiralty jurisdiction

From a third 1577 perspective, a court of admiralty investigated aiders and abettors on land who bought goods from a pirate ship and fed and enabled the pirates.

From aiding pirates to aiding human rights abusers: translating the eighteenth-century paradigm of the law of nations for the Alien Tort Statute

The sanctuary chairs were presented by Sir Leoline (Llewellyn) Jenkins, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, later Secretary of State to Charles II.

Welsh-speaking congregation of City of London church locked out of building; Diocese and wardens fail to come to an agreement over future plans