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Admiralty, Court of. The High Court of Admiralty, whose first record dates from 1361, dealt with matters relating to crime on the high seas and cases involving maritime questions and foreign merchants. It applied principles of civil law and hence was popular with the cosmopolitan mercantile community. Its heyday was the Tudor period, when it was used to settle disputes relating to maritime contracts and matters of shipwreck and salvage. The court excited the hostility of Parliament and of the common lawyers, especially Coke, and declined in the 17th cent., losing most of its commercial jurisdiction to the common law courts. Admiralty remained a separate court until merged with the matrimonial and probate courts into the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty division of the High Court in 1873.

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international maritime law

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international maritime law, see admiralty; continuous voyage; exclusive economic zone; high seas; mare clausum; marpol; narrow seas; oleron, the laws of; territorial waters; united nations conference on the law of the sea.

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