generations (if not millennia) of
admiralty courts to promote rescue of
(140) While Justice Thomas stated that the Court based its decision solely on doctrine; this Note finds that the real reason behind the Court's decision was an originalist concern with uniformity among
admiralty courts.
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American courts from the English
admiralty courts whose jurisdiction had
them before an
admiralty court and be granted a proper salvage award.
The United Filipino Seafarers (UFS) is appealing to the government to set up an
Admiralty Court in the country, reiterating that having one would strengthen the maritime industry, prosecute corrupt maritime officials and prevent maritime disasters.
His was not only the first British
admiralty court in the New World but also the first European court in Canada, so it should be of interest not only to Newfoundlanders but also to students of British and Canadian legal history.
"The rule providing federal admiralty jurisdiction for suits to enforce judgments of foreign
admiralty courts has been recognized since the birth of the Nation.
Chief Justice Taney disposed of this distinction as artificial and irrelevant to the purposes served by
admiralty courts:
In light of the (perhaps widespread) avoidance of condemning prizes in Irish Confederate
admiralty courts, did the government's share balance its presumed loss of custom revenues?
Nevertheless it argues that, in the wake of the Miles saga, the
admiralty courts appear willing to reclaim their healthy role in making admiralty law free from mirages of nonexistent congressional mandates or occupation of admiralty waters.
admiralty courts are free to adjudicate a foreign sovereign's claim to maritime property (whether a vessel or cargo), so long as that sovereign was not ousted of its actual possession at the institution of the proceeding, is one of long-standing and pedigree.
