...navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons of burden ; * * * saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." The right of action for '.he negligent or wrongful killing of a person is expressly given...

...cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, . . . saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it," while it authorized, to some extent, state legislation changing or modifying the general...

...coming within the clause of the Dth section of the act of 1789, which saves to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it. But the remedy pursued in the Iowa courts, in the case before us, is in no sense a common...

...maritime cases exclusively on the district courts of the United States, but reserved to all suitors "the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." The act provided for admiralty appeals from the district courts to the circuit courts...

...jurisdiction, to be administered under a central law with rights of appeal, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. Thus under sharp cleavage, admiralty and common law jurisdictions were separated, and much...

...jurisdiction "over all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." Third. — The Maryland Act expressly declares that the remedy therein provided should...

...this jurisdiction is by the act of Congress made exclusive, saving, however, to suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. (1 Benedict on Admiralty (5th ed.), sec. 114; US Code, Title 28, sees. 41, 371.) When the libel is filed,...

...burthen, within their respective districts as well as upon the high seas; saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." Civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction were not subject to jury trial. In...

...nfra. »« Act of Sept 24. 1789, ch. 20. 1 9, 1 Stat 76. i«z But "saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it" 1W After 1789 state and circuit courts were givwi concurrent jurisdiction from time to...

...exclusive federal authority over all admiralty and maritime cases, "saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." Section 9, Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 76, 77. Although this "savings clause" meant...