 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 pages
...impost, navigation, or trade laws of the United States, when the seizures are made on the high sea, or on waters navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons' burden ; and of all other seizures made, and suits for penalties, under the laws of the United States.... | |
 | Andrew Dunlap - 1850 - 608 pages
...Congress. Perhaps the true construction of the Act of Congress upon this subject may be, that seizures on waters navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons 41 burthen, in order to be brought within the Admiralty jurisdiction, must be made on waters, so navigable... | |
 | Erastus Cornelius Benedict - 1850 - 694 pages
...test. The Congress and the courts embrace within the Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction all seizures on waters navigable from the sea, by vessels of ten or more tons.(n) ยง 230. There can be nothing in the mere rise and fall of the water, which can affect the... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 pages
...on information in rem, and the trial of issues of fact is to be by jury.0 But in cases of seizures on waters navigable from the sea, by vessels of ten or more tons burden, the court proceeds as an instance court of admiralty, by libel in rein, and the trial is by... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1860 - 600 pages
...impost, navigation or trade, of the United States, where the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons...respective districts, as well as upon the high seas." This act, it is said, is a statutory construction by Congress of the admiralty clause in the Constitution.... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 736 pages
...jurisdiction of the district court, of seizures under laws of impost, been construed 1 In cases where the seizures are made on waters navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons' burthen, they are considered as civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and are to be tried by... | |
 | Richard Swainson Fisher - 1852 - 752 pages
...made on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. tons' burthen, within their respective districts, as well as upon the high seas, saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent... | |
 | RICHARD S. FISHER - 1853 - 638 pages
...impost, navigation, or trade, of the United States, where the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons'...respective districts, as well as upon the high. seas, saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 790 pages
...including all seizures under the laws of imposts, navigation, or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters navigable from the sea, by vessels of ten or more tons burden, within their respective districts, as upon the high seas ; saving to suitors, in all cases,... | |
 | James Kent - 1854 - 714 pages
...on information in rem, and the trial of issues of fact is to be by jury.d But in cases of seizures on waters navigable from the sea, by vessels of ten or more tons burden, the court proceeds as an instance court of admiralty, by libel in rem, and the trial is by... | |
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... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters which are navigable from the sea... 
