02738nam a2200313Ia 4500 304142 OCoLC 20160527184834.0 060324s2007 ncu b 001 0 eng 2006010306 1594601739 (alk. paper) 9781594601736 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)65341104 (OCoLC)264754556 PUCPR cicg KF 1112 .S645 2007 343.7309/6 22 Snell, Steven L. 278325 Local Courts of admiralty and the common law origins of the American experiment in concurrent jurisdiction Steven L. Snell. Durham, N.C. Carolina Academic Press c2007. x, 481 p. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-456) and index. Maritime commerce and the eighteenth-century American economy -- The impact of independence on American maritime trade -- Maritime commerce and American foreign policy -- The continuity of substantive maritime law -- The struggle for jurisdiction -- Concurrent jurisdiction -- The early history of maritime litigation in the American colonies -- Vice admiralty courts and the Navigation Acts -- The provincial vice admiralty courts -- Factors influencing choice of forum -- Vice admiralty jurisdiction on the eve of the Revolution: a final appraisal -- The maritime jurisdiction of the states -- The Constitutional Convention -- General debate over Article III in the states' ratifying conventions -- Admiralty and the concept of concurrent jurisdiction in the state's ratifying conventions -- Admiralty jurisdiction and the structure of the federal courts -- Concurrent admiralty and maritime jurisdiction -- The Judiciary Act and the Constitution -- Admiralty jurisdiction and substantive law -- The law of nations in late eighteenth-century America -- Lex maritima as part of the law of nations -- Substantive maritime law and concurrent maritime jurisdiction: recapitulation -- Blue water: international and coastal maritime commerce in the antebellum republic -- Continental influence on the early federal courts -- Uniformity and the general maritime law -- Joseph Story and the maritime law -- Brown water: inland navigation in the antebellum republic -- Federal jurisdiction over inland waters. Admiralty United States History. 49361 Local Common Law 6947 LEMB Jurisdiction United States. 118661 Local Online version Snell, Steven L. Courts of admiralty and the common law. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007 (OCoLC)681063534 Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006010306.html 222761 222761 0 0 lc 0 KF_1112_000000000000000__S645_2007 0 cil 67918 7 7 4 2016-05-27 Carolina Academic Press 60.00 484539 0 KF 1112 .S645 2007 70000000890405 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:304142 6