...admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, to be administered under a central law with rights of appeal, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. Thus under sharp cleavage, admiralty and common law jurisdictions were separated, and much...

...admiralty jurisdiction provides that the Federal Court shall have admiralty jurisdiction "over all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." Third. — The Maryland Act expressly declares that the remedy therein provided should...

...defining the jurisdiction of the federal courts, provides that such jurisdiction shall include "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." ID. — COMMON-LAW REMEDY —...

...1233]), by sections 24 and 256, vests exclusive jurisdiction in the federal courts "of all civil cases 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, and to claimants the rights and...

...256, confers exclusive jurisdiction on the district courts of the United States of all civil cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, 'saving to...common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it'." Congress, at least, in passing the bill and making the amendment, did not intend to take...

...Judiciary Act of 1789 gives the District courts of the United States "exclusive, original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the commonlaw is competent to give it." This jurisdiction granted to state courts competent to give common-law...

...giving the federal courts exclusive original cognizance of all admiralty and maritime cases, though saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. The question arises whether the power of the state to regulate by statute the liability...

...jurisdiction," and this jurisdiction is by the act of Congress made exclusive, saving, however, to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. (1 Benedict on Admiralty (5th ed.), sec. 114; US Code, Title 28, sees. 41, 371.) When the...

...vessels of ten or more 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 to give it." Civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction were not subject to jury trial. In...

...See text accompanying notes 130-43 nfra. »« Act of Sept 24. 1789, ch. 20. 1 9, 1 Stat 76. i«z But "saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it" 1W After 1789 state and circuit courts were givwi concurrent jurisdiction from time to...