The Enterprise’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““Courts Having Cognizance of Limited Liability Procedure “The said libel or petition shall be filed and the said proceedings had in any District Court of the United States in which said ship or vessel may be libeled to answer for any such embezzlement, loss, destruction, damage or injury; or, if the said ship or vessel be not libeled, then in the District Court for any district in which the said owner or owners may be sued in that behalf; when the said ship or vessel has not been libeled to answer the matters aforesaid, and suit has not been commenced against the said owner or owners, or has been commenced in a district other than that in which the said ship or vessel may be, '¡he said proceedings may be had in the District Court of the district in which the said ship or vessel may be, and where it may be subject to the control of such court for the purposes of the case as hereinbefore provided. If the ship shall have already been libeled or sold, the proceeds shall represent the same for the purposes of these rules.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Butcher

2. ““In tbe present case, tbe proper court undoubtedly was tbe District Court of tbe United States for tbe Southern District of New York, where tbe remains of tbe vessel were situated,- and where suits were brought against tbe owners. Proceedings under tbe act having been duly instituted in this court, it acquired full jurisdiction of tbe subject-matter; and having taken such jurisdiction, and procured control of tbe vessel and freight or their value, constituting tbe fund to be distributed, and issued its monition to all parties to appear and present their claims, it became tbe duty of all courts before wbicb any of such claims were prosecuted, upon being properly certified of the proceedings, to suspend further action upon said claims.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co.

3. ““Our rules -were not intended to prevent an owner from availing himself of any other remedy or process which the law itself entitled him to adopt, but to aid him in bringing into concourse those having claims against him arising from the acts of the master or crew.” '”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co.