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Admiralty Proceeding

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Admiralty Proceeding
Any hearing before an admiralty court. An admiralty proceeding is usually a lawsuit brought against another party over an event that occurred on the high seas. For example, if one is transporting a good overseas and the ship sinks, any lawsuit that results would be heard in an admiralty proceeding.


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981 (1994), the majority of the United States Supreme Court stated that "[a]n in rem suit against a vessel is, as we have said, distinctly an admiralty proceeding and is hence within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal courts.
 
 
 
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