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28 USC § 1333 - Admiralty, maritime and prize cases
Any civil case of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled.
Any prize brought into the United States and all proceedings for the condemnation of property taken as prize.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 931; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 79,63 Stat. 101.)
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 41(3) and 371 (3), (4) (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, §§ 24, par. 3, 256, pars. 3, 4, 36 Stat. 1091, 1160; Oct. 6, 1917, ch. 97, §§ 1, 2,40 Stat. 395; June 10, 1922, ch. 216, §§ 1, 2,42 Stat. 634).
Section consolidates certain provisions of sections 41
(3), 371
(3) and 371
(4) of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed. Other provisions of sections 41
(4), relating to seizures, are incorporated in section 1356 of this title. (See reviser’s note thereunder.)
The “saving to suitors” clause in sections 41
(3) of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was changed by substituting the words “any other remedy to which he is otherwise entitled” for the words “the right of a common law remedy where the common law is competent to give it.” The substituted language is simpler and more expressive of the original intent of Congress and is in conformity with Rule 2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure abolishing the distinction between law and equity.
(3) of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., based on the 1917 and 1922 amendments, relating to remedies under State workmen’s compensation laws, were deleted. Such amendments were held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. (See Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart, 1920, 40 S.Ct. 438, 253 U.S. 149, 64 L.Ed. 834, and State of Washington v. W. C. Dawson & Co., 1924, 44 S.Ct. 302, 264 U.S. 219, 68 L.Ed. 646.)
Words “libellant or petitioner” were substituted for “suitors” to describe moving party in admiralty cases.
This section amends section 1333
(a)(1) of title 28, U.S.C., by substituting “suitors” for “libellant or petitioner” to conform to the language of the law in existence at the time of the enactment of the revision of title 28.
1949—Subd. (1). Act May 24, 1949, substituted “suitors” for “libellant or petitioner”.