Labels:book | reckoner | sky OCR: explicitly recognized authority of the national judiciary over all cases adiniralty and maritime iurisdiction IT furtherance of its Constitutional authority. the Su- preme Court has played the teading role in the definition of the breadth of admiralty jurisdiction and in the formulation the general maritime law of the United States. Admiralty jurisdic. tion was inter rpreted Ibroadly and early Tederal I decisions held that the "admiralty and maritime' jurisdiction neither he circumscribed by the narrow rules of English common Jaw nor he bound follow principles English admiralty courts. DeLovio Boit Cas, 418. {C.C.D Mass 1815 The Propefter Genesee Chief Fitzhugh. 53 U.S 12 How. 443 (1852) Asto admiralts jurisdiction, this Court has indicated the Constitutional reach ot admiralty matter of j ...