ADMIRALT

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ADMIRALTY. The name of a jurisdiction which takes cognizance of suits or
  actions which arise in consequence of acts done upon or relating to the sea;
  or, in other words, of all transactions and proceedings relative to commerce
  and navigation, and to damages or injuries upon the sea. 2 Gall. R. 468. In
  the great maritime nations of Europe, the term "admiralty jurisdiction,"
  is, uniformly applied to courts exercising jurisdiction over maritime


  contracts and concerns. It is as familiarly known among the jurists of
  Scotland, France, Holland and Spain, as of England, and applied to their own
  courts, possessing substantially the same jurisdiction as the English
  Admiralty had in the reign of Edward III. Ibid., and the authorities there
  cited; and see, also, Bac. Ab. Court of Admiralty; Merl. Repert. h.t.
  Encyclopedie, h.t.; 1 Dall. 323.
       2. The Constitution of the United States has delegated to the courts of
  the national government cognizance "of all cases of admiralty and maritime
  jurisdiction;" and the act of September 24, 1789, ch. 20 s. 9, has given the
  district court" cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime
  jurisdiction," including all seizures under 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 well as upon the high seas.
       3. It is not within the plan of this work to enlarge upon this subject.
  
  The reader is referred to the article Courts of the United States, where he
  will find all which has been thought necessary to say upon it as been the
  subject.  Vide, generally, Dunlap's Adm. Practice; Bett's Adm. Practice; 1
  Kent's Com. 353 to 380; Serg. Const. Law, Index, h.t.; 2 Gall. R. 398. to
  476; 2 Chit. P. 508; Bac. Ab. Courts of Admiralty; 6 Vin. Ab. 505; Dane's
  Ab. Index b. t; 12 Bro. Civ. and Adm. Law; Wheat. Dig. 1; 1 Story L. U. S.
  56, 60; 2 Id. 905, 3 Id. 1564, 1696; 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story's L. U. S.
  2262; Clerke's Praxis; Collectanea Maritima; 1 U. S. Dig. tit. Admiralty
  Courts, XIII.