It never applied to cases heard overseas in the court of admiralty.

The writ was also used in the courts of admiralty and local courts.

One also sits as the court of admiralty, hearing all cases involving shipping commerce, accidents on the sea and the like.

Others have attempted to persuade the judiciary that fringe on an American flag denotes a court of admiralty.

Rather than civil courts, pirate trials were overseen by the Court of Admiralty.

An advocate in a court of admiralty (see admiralty law)

He represented the Crown in the High Court of Admiralty.

A Court of Admiralty condemned her to be sold and severely censured her officers.

The commissioners can "call and assemble a court of admiralty when and as often as occasion shall require."

He became an advocate in 1566, and later was appointed as a judge of the High Court of Admiralty.

In 1777, he was appointed as a judge of the court of admiralty where he soon became presiding judge.

Sections five and six relate to jurisdiction over merchant shipping and Courts of Admiralty.

However, some English courts, such as the Court of Admiralty, operated on Roman law principles.

High Court of Admiralty.

There was a right of appeal to the High Court of Admiralty in England.

Appeals from the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports.

Moving to London, Tregonwell began to practise in the court of admiralty, of which he became before 1535 principal judge or commissary-general.

Clarke was further annoyed by the creation of a Court of Admiralty in Rhode Island.

Every superior court not named in that Act would become a Colonial Court of Admiralty automatically.

But the most grievous innovation of all, is the alarming extension of the power of courts of admiralty.

He practised in the High Court of Admiralty, where the continental civil law rather than the English common law was applied.

The Court of Admiralty "held mass trials" with "large numbers of pirates at one time" as demonstrations to those interested in taking on a pirate's life.

This order was made under the previous Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890 (UK).

The Judges of the Court of Admiralty now receiving salaries shall be paid by the General Government.

He was made a judge of the court of admiralty in 1777 and thus became a judge of the first Court of Appeals.