...jurisdiction "of all causes of ad mi raity and maritime jurisdiction," expressly saves "to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it." Sec. 563, supra. The same clauses are contained in the section of the federal statutes...

...incurred under the laws of the United States; 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; all seizures under the laws of the United States, on land or waters not within admiralty...

...was urged that the clause in the 9th section of the judiciary act of 1789, 1 Statutes at Large, 77, " eral and public concern to the whole country, may be taken notice of by judges to give it," took away such cases from the admiralty jurisdiction of the courts of the United States....

...before us is not within the saving clause of the ninth section. That clause only saves to suitors " the right of a commonlaw remedy, where the common law is competent to give it." It is not a remedy in the common-law courts which is saved, but a common-law remedy. A...

...jurisdiction as follows: . . . "Eighth. 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; and of all seizures on land and on waters not within admiralty and maritime jurisdiction....

...act adds, by way of qualification to this designation of admiralty jurisdiction, these words, viz., "saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it."1 The act of Congress is rather ambiguous in its meaning, and leaves it uncertain whether...

...States or within a marine league of the coasts, by whomsoever made, are likewise cognizable therein, — saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it. Act Sept. 24, 1789, i Story's Laws, 56. Act of June 5, 1794. r Story's Laws, 353. Seamen's...

...the courts of the several states Third. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law...where the common law is competent to give it." "The judicial power of the United States is in some cases unavoidably exclusive of all state authority,...

...district courts have exclusive jurisdiction 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. From that it will be seen that, to justify the decision here, the case must be a civil...

...Courts.— " That clause [in Rev. Stats., sees. 563 and 711, quoted note 10, above] only saves to suitors ' the right of a common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it.' It is not a remedy in the common-law courts, which is saved; but a common-law remedy....