Homord Enedict

Jany 26th 1867

THE

ADMIRALTY

JURISDICTION, LAW AND PRACTICE

OF THE

COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES:

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING THE

NEW RULES OF ADMIRALTY PRACTICE PRESCRIBED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES, THOSE OF THE CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT OF THE UNITED

STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK,

AND NUMEROUS

PRACTICAL FORMS

OF PROCESS, PLEADINGS, STIPULATIONS, ETC.,

COMPRISING THE ENTIRE PROGRESS OF A SUIT IN ADMIRALTY; ACCOMPANIED BY
EXPLANATORY NOTES.

BY ALFRED CONKLING.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

ALBANY:

W. C. LITTLE & CO., LAW BOOKSELLERS.

1857.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857,

By ALFRED CONKLING,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Northern District of

New-York.

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WEED, PARSONS & CO.,
PRINTERS.

CONTENTS.

PRACTICE.

CHAPTER I.

Origin of the American Courts of Admiralty, their structure, and

general principles of procedure,...

CHAPTER II.

Proceedings preliminary to the commencement of suits for seamen's

wages,

CHAPTER III.

Commencement of the suit-Libel, ..

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1

45

70

CHAPTER VI.

Non-appearance-taking libel pro confesso:

SECTION I. Of the non-appearance of the libellant,..

SECTION II. Of the non-appearance of the defendant in an action

in personam, on the return-day of the mesne

process,

PAGE.

173

... 177

SECTION III. Of the non-appearance of any claimant in an action

in rem, on the return-day of the mesne process, 191

CHAPTER VII.

Of the proceedings upon the appearance of the parties upon the

return-day of the process,.

198

CHAPTER VIII.

Of the allegations or pleadings subsequent to the libel,.

..... 212

Mode of instituting an appeal from a circuit court to the Su-

preme Court, and the proceedings thereon,.

374

Appeals from a district court to a circuit court,

397

Of the rule non allegata allegandi et non probata probandi,