 gives a right of action for damages resulting from death caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond one marine league from the shore. It expressly directs: 'That the provisions of any state statute giving or regulating...  American Law Reports Annotated - Page 4551927Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1922 - 802 pages
...death on the high seas and other navigable waters," approved March 30,; 1920, c. Ill, 41 Stat. 537, gives a right of action for damages resulting from...remedies for death shall not be. affected by this Act. Nor shall this Act apply to the Great Lakes or to any waters within the territorial limits of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1974 - 1190 pages
...The Death on the High Seas Act, enacted in 1920, provides: "Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, • neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, or the District of Columbia, or the Territories or dependencies... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1922 - 938 pages
...of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, or the District of Columbia, or the Territories or dependencies... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 636 pages
...National Bank v. Texas Investment Company, 74 Tex. 437. DEATH. ot Action jf a statute of the forum creates a right of action for damages resulting from death caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, a foreign statute creating such right will be enforced, if the two statutes be not so dissimilar as... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1916 - 32 pages
...9919, section 1 of which reads as follows: SECTION 1. That whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, or on any navigable waters of the Panama Canal Zone, the... | |
 | International Law Association - Conflict of laws - 1915 - 284 pages
...of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default occurring on the high seas, the Great Lakes or any navigable waters of the United States, the personal representative of the decedent... | |
 | George Lewis Canfield, George Walton Dalzell - Admiralty - 1921 - 346 pages
...act of Congress was approved, the text of which follows: That whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shores of any State, or the District of Columbia, or the Territories or dependencies... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 800 pages
...death on the high seas and other navigable waters," approved March 30, 1920, c. Ill, 41 Stat. 537, gives a right of action for damages resulting from...or remedies for death shall not be affected by this Act. Nor shall this Act apply to the Great Lakes or to any waters within the territorial limits of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 1140 pages
...the High Seas and Oilier Navigable Waters," approved March 30, 1920, chap. Ill, 41 Stat. at L. 537, gives a right of action for damages resulting from...or remedies for death shall not be affected by this act. Nor shall this act apply to the Great Lakes or to any waters within the territorial limits of... | |
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