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THE AMERICAN ADMIRALTY: DIVISION AND DEVOLUTION

By Graydon S. Staring*

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION

Tradition is generally supposed to have no significance in law apart from family and community...

Limitation of enterprise liability is today so commonplace that we see notice of it all...

This article views the jurisdiction, or power, of the Admiral in its historic setting as...

This article is an exposition of the uselessness of factors of causation and increase of...

As background for counsel seeking to interpret reinsurance contracts, this article extracts and comments on...

This essay and book review starts with brief history of the remakably prolific publication of...

This paper discusses an important opinion, Tagliere v. Harrah’s Illinois Corp. giving effect to words...

The existence of admiralty jurisdiction determines not only access to a federal court sitting in...

The common words, constructive total loss, can be used together in their ordinary English senses...

The Comité Maritime International (“CMI”) has examined “marine insurance law” to discover the possibilities of...

The doctrine of forum non conveniens has become more prominent and freely applied as courts...

The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was persuaded some years ago, and still...

Terrorism has brought the marine and nonmarine markets into a new conjunction. The marine industry...

The misreading years ago of an opinion by Learned Hand turned the rule of materiality...

In the interest of harmonizing marine insurance across state and national borders, the word "warranty"...

When courts differ widely and sharply on which of three or four procedural courses shouold...

Starting from a historical background of marine insurance law, the Article discusses several areas where...

This article examines the doctrine of utmost good faith in marine insurance as it is...

The present bankruptcy law of the United States has a scope undreamed of when the...

Justice Frankfurter observed that the interstices of procedure contained a great deal of substance. Procedure...

Author’s 50th anniversary note, July 2007

This article was first published by the California Law...

This treatise, published in 1993 by Clark Boardman Callaghan (now Thomson West), is the first...

Reinsurance is a business of transactions that cross national and state boundaries in great numbers...

This article describes the division of the Spreme Court in the Asahi case in 1987...