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Maritime law - United States

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    Extracts from the proceedings of the High Court of Vice-Admiralty, in Charlestown, South-Carolina, upon six several informations, adjudged by the Honourable Egerton Leigh, Esq; sole judge of that court, and His Majesty's attorney-general in the said province, in the years 176 and 1768 . With explanatory remarks, &c. And copies of two extraordinary oaths. To which are subjoined, recapitulation, reflections arising from a retrospect of a late case, and some general observations on American custom-house officers, and Courts of Vice-Admiralty.

    | Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]
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    An ordinance, to amend an ordinance, entitled, "An ordinance for establishing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas."

    United States | Date: 1783]
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    A Report of the opinions of the judges in the important cause of Penhallow et al. against Doane's administrators , delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, at February term, 1795, on an appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of New Hampshire. Taken by permission, from the notes of the judges.

    | Date: 1795

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