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REPORTS OF CASES

DECIDED IN THE

VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT

OF

NEW BRUNSWICK

FROM 1879 TO 1891.

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION ON ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION; TABLES OF THE CASES REPORTED
AND CITED; THE IMPERIAL AND CANADIAN STATUTES RELATING TO ADMIRALTY
JURISDICTION AND PRACTICE; THE NEW RULES OF 1893; AND A FULL

DIGEST

OF ALL CANADIAN VICE-ADMIRALTY CASES.

BY

ALFRED A. STOCKTON, D. C. L., LL. D., Q. C.

Of the New Brunswick Bar; for some time Registrar of the Court; Editor of Berton's Reports
of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick; and Lecturer on the Law of Admiralty
and Shipping in the Law School at St. John, N. B., of the
University of King's College, Windsor, N. S.

ST. JOHN, N. B.

J. & A. MCMILLAN, PRINTERS, PUBLISHERS, ETC.

1894.

Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada in the year one

thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, by

ALFRED A. STOCKTON,

In the Office of the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa.

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TO THE

HON. WILLIAM H. TUCK, D. C. L.

ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE
SUPREME COURT OF NEW BRUNSWICK

AND

JUDGE IN ADMIRALTY

OF THE

EXCHEQUER COURT OF CANADA,

FOR THE ADMIRALTY DISTRICT OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK,

THIS VOLUME

IS

BY HIS PERMISSION

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.