workmen's compensation remedy
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Definitions from Case Law
From 285 U.S. 502 - Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc. v. Hicks · 1932Most cited · 464 citing opinions
the remedy which the compensation statute attempts to give is of a character wholly unknown to the common law, incapable of enforcement by the ordinary processes of any court, and is not saved to suitors from the grant of exclusive jurisdiction to the courts of the United States of all civil cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction