Excerpt from The American Admiralty: Its Jurisdiction and Practice, With Practical Forms and Directions The Practice of the Admiralty Courts of this country, notwithstanding the increased attention which has been recently given to it, has been still so much neglected, that, with the exception of a few lawyers in the commercial cities, the bar make no secret of their ignorance of this branch of legal learning. Having imbibed the English notions on the subject, many have supposed the jurisdiction to be confined to a small ...
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Excerpt from The American Admiralty: Its Jurisdiction and Practice, With Practical Forms and Directions The Practice of the Admiralty Courts of this country, notwithstanding the increased attention which has been recently given to it, has been still so much neglected, that, with the exception of a few lawyers in the commercial cities, the bar make no secret of their ignorance of this branch of legal learning. Having imbibed the English notions on the subject, many have supposed the jurisdiction to be confined to a small class of cases, not worth the labor of learning a new course of proceeding. They do not seem to have' adverted to that American view of the subject, which, springing out of the peculiar character of our institutions, considers the admiralty jurisdiction as an extensive and important branch of the national sovereignty, conferred exclusively upon the courts of the United States, for 'the wisest purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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