>>12627025 What does it mean when the American flag has the gold trim?
Maritime and Admiralty Law
I wonder if this has to do with Q's statement, "Watch the Water"Perhaps whenever the flag with gold trim is used as a signal, a significant water event is happening.
Maritime Law
By Julia Kagan
Reviewed By Charles Potters
Updated Sep 29, 2020
What Is Maritime Law?
Maritime law, also known as admiralty law, is a body of laws, conventions, and treaties that govern private maritime business and other nautical matters, such as shipping or offenses occurring on open water. International rules, governing the use of the oceans and seas, are known as the Law of the Sea.
Key Takeaways
Maritime law governs private maritime questions, disputes, or offenses and other nautical matters.
In most developed countries, the maritime law follows a separate code and is an independent jurisdiction from national laws.
The IMO ensures that existing international maritime conventions are kept up to date and develops new agreements when the need arises.
Understanding Maritime Law
In most developed nations, maritime law follows a separate code and is an independent jurisdiction from national laws. The United Nations (UN), through the International Maritime Organization (IMO), has issued numerous conventions that can be enforced by the navies and coast guards of countries that have signed the treaty outlining these rules. Maritime law governs many of the insurance claims relating to ships and cargo; civil matters between shipowners, seamen, and passengers; and piracy.
Conventions are regularly amended to keep up with new business practices and technologies.
Additionally, maritime law regulates registration, license, and inspection procedures for ships and shipping contracts; maritime insurance; and the carriage of goods and passengers.
The IMO (established in 1948 as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization, and coming into force in 1958) is responsible for ensuring that existing international maritime conventions are kept up to date, as well as developing new agreements as and when the need arises.
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What Is an Admiralty Court?
An admiralty court is a tribunal with jurisdiction over maritime law, including cases regarding shipping, ocean, and sea laws. Historically, admiralty courts were a separate part of the court system. In modern times, these cases may be assigned within the regular court system, usually at the federal or Superior Court level.
In the U.S., any court that is hearing a maritime case is an admiralty court for the duration of that case.
Understanding the Admiralty Court
An admiralty court hears shipping, ocean, and sea legal cases. The definition of such cases is broad, encompassing contracts, torts, injuries, and offenses relating to maritime law and events that occur on the high seas.
Key Takeaways
An admiralty court hears a wide range of cases related to maritime law.
In the U.S., any federal court may be designated an admiralty court for the purposes of the case under consideration.
Cases heard in admiralty court are generally civil, not criminal.
The courts thus hear a range of cases covering shipping, boating, insurance matters related to ships or their cargo, collisions at sea, civil matters involving seamen, passengers, and cargo, salvage claims, claims for damages by ships, disputed ownership of ships, and even marine pollution cases.
Generally, modern admiralty courts hear civil actions, not criminal cases.
Admiralty courts have the power to issue a maritime lien against a ship, allowing the court or its appointees to seize the ship to settle claims against it.
Whether it can be seized in other countries is governed by the admiralty courts of those countries and also is subject to any treaties that may be in effect among the nations involved