Maritime contract

A contract whose subject-matter has relation to the navigation of the seas or to trade or commerce to be conducted by navigation or to be done upon the sea or in ports. Over such contracte the admiralty has concurrent jurisdiction with the common-law courts.

Edwards v. Elliott, 2l Wall. 553, 22 In Ed. 487; Doolittle v. Knobe-loch (D. C.) 39 Fed. 40 ; Holt v. Cummings, 102 Pa. 215, 48 Am. Rep. 199; De Lovio v. Boit, 7 Fed. Cas. 435; Freights of The Kate (D. C.) 63 Fed. 720.