Abstract
During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the English Court
of Requests played a substantial role within the sphere of the parallel
and competing jurisdictions of the Westminster courts. It served as a
jack-of-all-trades court, a court of last resort, and a quasi-appellate
forum in which a certain subset of litigants could have their cases
heard or reheard in what they apparently considered to be a more
favorable venue. Admiralty disputes made up a small but not
insignificant part of the Court’s docket from the beginning. This
chapter details the types of admiralty disputes heard in Requests and
the various ways litigants used the Court.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Texts and Contexts in Legal History |
Subtitle of host publication | Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue |
Editors | John Witte, Sara McDougall, Anna Di Robilant |
Publisher | Robbins Collection |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1882239245 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2016 |