Excerpt from Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Vol. 4: From and Including a Portion of the Decisions Handed Down December 12, 1871, to and Including the Decisions of June 11, 1872, With Notes, References and Index The American Admiralty, its Jurisdiction and Practice, with practical forms and directions. By ebas'i'ub C. Benedict, LL.D. A new and enlarged edition. This book. So long and favorably known as the standard work on the subject of the American Admiralty, has been so long out of print, that for some years occasional second-hard copies Of the first edition have been readily sold at three times the original price. The author was unwilling to reprint before some doubtful questions had been settled by Congress or the courts. The organization of the courts, the jurisdiction and the practice being now established for appa rcntly long years to come, he has prepared this edition, sparing no pains to make it as worthy of professional favor now, when the national domain has been so greatly extended and the admiralty jurisdiction embraces our vast extent of navigable lakes and rivers, as the first edition was, when a few classes of cases, arising on the high seas, were practically the limit of that peculiar and beneficial jurisdiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.