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- Admiralty - n. - The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
- Admiralty - n. - The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
- Admiralty - n. - The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
- Admiralty - n. - The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
- Admiralty - n. - The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
- Admiralty - n. - The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
- Black book - - A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III.
- Sentence - n. - In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
- Apostle - n. - A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.
- Chart - n. - A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
- Stipulation - n. - A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.
- Proctor - n. - An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
- Libelant - n. - One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.
- Respondent - n. - One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant.