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Definition: Admiralty court from The Seafaring Dictionary: Terms, Idioms and Legends of the Past and Present

A tribunal administering maritime or admiralty law, including matters pertaining to shipping, collision, piracy, disposition of prizes, etc.


Admiralty Court

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English court that tries and gives judgement in maritime cases. The court is now incorporated within the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court and deals with such matters as salvage and damages arising from collisions between ships. Prize court The Admiralty Court also sits as a prize court, in which capacity it has jurisdiction in matters of capture in port or on land if the capture has been effected by a naval force or a mixed naval and military force. The court can also try any questions referred to it by the Privy Council concerning booty of war; that is, property captured by land forces. Scotland The Scottish Court of Admiralty lost its prize jurisdiction to the English Court of Admiralty in 1825, and in 1830 its civil and criminal jurisdiction was transferred respectively to the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary. The maritime law of Scotland is the same as that of England. USA By the US constitution, as interpreted by the US Supreme Court, admiralty…
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Full text Article Admiralty Court

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English court that tries and gives judgement in maritime cases. The court is now incorporated within the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court and deals with such matters as salvage and damages arising from collisions between ships. Prize court The Admiralty Court also sits as a prize court, in…
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Full text Article Admiralty, Court of.

From The Oxford Companion to British History
The High Court of Admiralty, whose first record dates from 1361, dealt with matters relating to crime on the high seas and cases involving maritime questions and foreign merchants. It applied principles of civil law and hence was popular with the cosmopolitan mercantile community. Its heyday was the…
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Full text Article Admiralty Court

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Death Sentence passed on pirates by the Admiralty Court at Cape Corso Castle, Gold Coast, 1722 (pen & ink on paper)
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Full text Article High Court of Admiralty

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
In England, formerly the court presided over by the deputy of the admiral of the fleet. It was established c. 1360 to deal with matters of discipline and cases of piracy and prizes (ships and goods captured at sea), but it eventually had jurisdiction over mercantile and shipping matters. In 1875 it…
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Full text Article Pollock, Sir Frederick

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(pŏl'Әk), 1845–1937, English jurist, b. London. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and was admitted to the bar in 1871. He succeeded to his baronetcy in 1888. Pollock was (1883–1903) professor of jurisprudence at Oxford. He devoted himself to legal study and writing; after 1914, however, he was…
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Full text Article Hopkinson, Francis

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Oct. 2, 1737, Philadelphia, Pa.—died May 9, 1791, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) U.S. political leader and writer. After a brief business career, he launched a successful legal practice in New Jersey. He was appointed to the governor’s council in 1774, and in 1776 he represented New Jersey in the…
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Full text Article Otis, James

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1725–83, American colonial political leader, b. Barnstable co., Mass. A lawyer first in Plymouth and then in Boston, he won great distinction and served (1756–61) as advocate general of the vice admiralty court. He resigned to oppose the issuing of writs of assistance by the superior court of…
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Full text Article Moore, Thomas

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1779–1852, Irish poet, b. Dublin. He achieved prominence in his day not only for his poetry but also for his love of Ireland and personal charm. A lawyer, he was for a time registrar of the admiralty court in Bermuda. He is remembered today for Irish Melodies , a group of lyrics published between…
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Full text Article Morris

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family of prominent American landowners and statesmen. Richard Morris , d. 1672, left England after serving in Oliver Cromwell's army, became a merchant in Barbados, and emigrated to New York City when it was known, under the Dutch, as New Amsterdam. He purchased a tract of land in what is now the…
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