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"A man shall not sue in the Admiralty, only because it is a ship."
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Maritime law or admiralty law is a body of law that governs nautical issues and private maritime disputes. Admiralty law consists of both domestic law on maritime activities, and private international law governing the relationships between private parties operating or using ocean-going ships. While each legal jurisdiction usually has its own legislation governing maritime matters, the internation
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"I for one will not re-open the floodgates of Admiralty jurisdiction upon the people of this country."
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"The jurisdiction of the Court does not depend upon the existence of the ship, but upon the origin of the question to be decided, and the locality."
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"The difficulty of dealing with Admiralty Reports by way of authority is, that there is no necessity in that Court that the Judge should, in the exposition of the grounds of his judgment, discriminate strictly between the proposition of law which is to be satisfied by all the facts of the case, and the rule of interpretation of the direct facts of maritime vicissitudes given in evidence, by which he desires to bind himself and his successors as to the inference of fact he and they ought, as a general rule, to draw from those facts."
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