The Centurion’s Empirical Analysis
1839
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cited by 1 later decisions
February 2013
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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“[although the admiralty has a general jurisdiction over maritime contracts and quasi contracts, and things done on the sea, it does not follow that the payment of a debt in every form which it may assume can be enforced in the admiralty, simply because it originated in a contract ... which was within the jurisdiction of the court[,]”
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