...1233]), by sections 24 and 256, vests exclusive jurisdiction in the federal courts "of all civil cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to...common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the Workmen's Compensation Law of any state."...

...That clause three of section twenty-four of the Judicial Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "Third. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime...common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen s compensation law of any State;...

...in the cases and proceedings hereinafter mentioned, shall be exclusive of the courts of the several states. Third, of all civil causes of admiralty and...jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it and to claimants the rights and...

...case of seizures on land or on waters not within the designated admiralty jurisdiction, as well as all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred under the laws of the United States over which the District Courts had exclusive original jurisdiction, issues of fact were to be tried...

...States jurisdiction in all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, reserves to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. The United States Supreme Court decided, however, in the case of the Southern Pacific Co....

...exclusively in state courts. The first is the thedistrict courts were given exclusive original jurisdiction "of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred, under the laws of the United States." Judiciary Act of 1789, ch. 20, § 9, 1 Stat. 77. See A Supreme Court Fiction I, supra note 53, at 856-57....

...exclusive original cognizance of all seizures on land, or other waters, than as aforesaid, made, and of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred, under the laws of the United States. And shall also have cognizance, concurrent with the Courts of the several States, or the circuit Courts,...

...exclusive original cognizance for all seizures on land, or other waters than as aforesaid, made,, and of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred, under the laws of the United States. And shall also have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the •evera/ States, or the circuit...

...Judiciary Act of 1789, however, Congress gave federal courts "exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction . . . saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." As one scholar has put it, the...

...Judiciary Act of 1789, which provided that district courts should have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give ft." (1 Stats. at Large, 73, 77 ; Judicial Code, sees. 24 and 256 [Comp. Stats., sees. 991...