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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
OP 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. O. 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.

PAGE

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

general principles of procedure,..

1

CHAPTER II.

Proceedings preliminary to the commencement of suits for seamen's

wages, .

... 45

CHAPTER III.

Commencement of the suit-Libel, .

70

CHAPTER IV.

The admiralty stipulation, ..

80

CHAPTER V.

Mesne Process :

SECTION 1. Mesne process in suits in personam,

128

1. Warrant to arrest the person of the defendant

alone, ...

130

2. Warrant to arrest the person, and also to attach

the goods and chattels or credits and effects of

the defendant,..

136

3. Monition,....

146

SECTION 11. Mesne process in rem,.

150

SECTION III. Process in rem and in personam,,-

169