The Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Court of Requests

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationTexts and Contexts in Legal History
Subtitle of host publicationEssays in Honor of Charles Donahue
EditorsJohn Witte, Sara McDougall, Anna Di Robilant
PublisherRobbins Collection
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)978-1882239245
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2016

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