...the rule is that the case is triable according to the course of the common law ; but seizures, when made on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen, are exclusively cognizable in the admiralty, subject to appeal to the Circuit Courts. Dunlap,...

...including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea, by vessels of ten or more tons burthen, within their respective districts, as well as upon the high seas." It is contended that the...

...ehap. 20, US Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 455) jurisdiction was given to the district courts of all seizures made "on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of 10 or more tons' burden;" and by the act of February 26, 1845 (5 Stat. at L. 726, chap. 20, US Comp....

...the waters of that portion of Behring Sea belonging to the Uoited States and said district, on waters navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burden," as forfeited to the united States for the killing of fur seal "within the limits of Alaska Territory...

...including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen * * *. Both of these represented a clear break from the English rule. The first judicial steps...

...admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, to be administered under a central law with rights of appeal, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. Thus under sharp cleavage, admiralty and common law jurisdictions...

...Court shall have admiralty jurisdiction "over 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." Third. — The Maryland Act expressly declares that the remedy...

...giving the federal courts exclusive original cognizance of all admiralty and maritime cases, though saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. The question arises whether the power of the state to regulate...

...including all Seizures under Laws of Impost, Navigation or Trade of the United States, where the Seizures are made on Waters which are navigable from the Sea by Vessels of ten or more Tons Burthen, within their respective Districts, as well as upon the high Seas; saving to Suitors in all...

...See text accompanying notes 130-43 nfra. »« Act of Sept 24. 1789, ch. 20. 1 9, 1 Stat 76. i«z But "saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it" 1W After 1789 state and circuit courts were givwi concurrent...