...ADMIRALTY AND MARITIME CAUSES AND SEIZURES ON LAND. Admiralty Causes and Seizures on Land. Eighth. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction...common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it ; and of all seizures on land and on waters not within admiralty and maritime jurisdiction....

...defining the jurisdiction of the federal courts, provides that such jurisdiction shall 'iclude "all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction...right of a common-law remedy, where the common law is comi>etent to give it." This provision has been construed in a number of decisions, and the construction...

...the act conferring admiralty and maritime jurisdiction on the United States district court expressly saving "to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. " 2. INJUNCTION— PLEADING — ALLEGATION OP INSOLVENCY. A complaint for an injunction...

...question is whether the proceeding taken is within the exception 'of saving to suitors ill all cuses the right of a common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it.' It was certainly not a common-law action, but a suit in equity. But it will be noticed...

...in cases not here important) imposes upon the federal district courts exclusive jurisdiction "of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it" The defendant is unquestionably right in his position that this saving is of a common-law...

...statute of the United States which confers upon the district courts authority to hear and determine " all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and of all seizures on land and on water not within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction...

...district courts shall have, exclusively of the courts of the several states, . . . 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," is constitutional. The Moses...

...cognisahle in admiralty, yet the saving in t!ie United States statute, to suitors in all cases, of " the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it," permits of a proceeding in state court, for injury to dredge, by attachment, although...

...Congress conferred upon the district courts of the United States "exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction,...common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." Judiciary Act Sept. 24, 17&9, c. 20, § 9, 1 US Stat. 73-77. The saving clause has been...

...St. US, which provides that the district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction "of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction,...common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give lî, * * • and that such jurisdiction shall be exclusive," etc. In support of the validity...