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Admiralty Tort Jurisdiction-Airplane Crashes Into Navigable Waters Within State Territorial Limits
Admiralty Tort Jurisdiction-Airplane Crashes Into Navigable Waters Within State Territorial Limits
University of Richmond Law Review
The United States Constitution provides that "[t]he judicial power shall extend . . . to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction. The Congress, in establishing a court system, provided that "the district courts shall have . . . exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ... saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy...."
Torts- Parent-Child Immunity- Reluctance To Further Abrogate The Immunity Rule
Torts- Parent-Child Immunity- Reluctance To Further Abrogate The Immunity Rule
University of Richmond Law Review
Although there is no case authority, it is probable that at common law there was no prohibition against a minor child bringing suit against his parent for a personal tort. Indeed, a child could enforce his own choses in action and sue for wrongs to his property. Similarly, in the United States prior to 1891, case law seemed to indicate that there was no parent-child immunity. However, after that date, without citing any common law precedent, three cases laid the basis for the parent-child tort immunity rule by holding a parent not liable for a tort inflicted upon his unemancipated …