Text for law students and practitioners providing information about the nature and origins of admiralty jurisdiction, courts and jurisdiction, admiralty claims, practice, procedure and precedents. Includes table of cases, table of statutes, references, bibliography and index. The author is a senior lecturer in law at Deakin University.

"A full selection of the decisions in admiralty cases rendered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, by the Hon. Samuel R. Betts, from the early part of the year 1847 down to the close of 1850. It may be regarded as a continuation of the series of admiralty reports commenced by Blatchford & Howland, and continued by Olcott"--Preface.

Contents of each report may be found in "List of publications of the Geological survey of Canada. 1906."