Involving maritime law, concerning the high seas or navigable waters.

Admiralty Court is a court having jurisdiction over maritime questions pertaining to ocean transport, including contacts, charters, collisions and cargo damages.

Courts of law that deal with matters pertaining to the sea.

Admiralty law (also known as “Maritime Law”) includes all areas of law relating to maritime activity. Navigation, commerce, the shipment of goods, the transportation of passengers, and matters dealing with maritime employees are all covered. Admiralty law governs much of the insuring language in Ocean Marine Insurance. (See Ocean Marine Insurance).

Admiralty law is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offences. It deals with matters including marine commerce, marine navigation, sailors, shipping and the transportation of passengers and goods by sea. Although, many countries have enacted their own general maritime legislation admiralty law is characterized by a significant amount of International Law developed in recent decades including various multilateral treaties.

A admiralty lawyer or maritime lawyer deals with maritime law. This could involve collisions at sea, maritime torts, industrial torts, transactional law and environmental law. Ship owners and charters may engage admiralty lawyers for ship registration, ship sale, shipping litigation, arbitration, ship arrests and release apart from handling cases relating to marine insurance.

A type of proceedings involving questions of maritime suit. Any insurance claim involving ocean marine insurance would usually be settled by an admiralty court.

Claims of losses than can be properly accepted or allowed on a Policy written.