THE

AMERICAN ADMIRALTY

ITS

JURISDICTION AND PRACTICE

WITH

PRACTICAL FORMS AND DIRECTIONS.

BY ERASTUS C. BENEDICT.

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"The worst Civil Code would be one which should be intended for all nations indiscriminately.—
The worst Maritime Code, one which should be dictated by the separate interests
and influenced by the peculiar manners of only one people."-PARDESSus.

NEW YORK:

BANKS, GOULD & CO. LAW BOOKSELLERS.

ALBANY :

GOULD, BANKS & GOULD, 104 STATE STREET.

1850.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty, by

ERASTUS C. BENEDICT,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

PRINTED BY A. S. GOULD, 144 Nassau Street, N. Y.

AND WITH A GRATEFUL SENSE OF HIS KINDNESS AND COURTESY.