ward of the admiralty
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 293 U.S. 155 - Warner v. Goltra · 1934Most cited · 506 citing opinions
He is a 'ward of the admiralty,' often ignorant and helpless, and so in need of protection against himself as well as others.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ward of the admiralty” — 500 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.