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The Constitution of the United States of America

Note 367 — ARTICLE III (continued 2)

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Soon afterwards in Jackson v. Steamboat Magnolia, 20 How. 296 (1858), the Court rejected what was left of narrow doctrines of the extent of admiralty jurisdiction by holding that a collision on the Alabama river above tidal flow and wholly within the State of Alabama came within the grant of admiralty jurisdiction in the Judiciary Act of 1789 which extended it "to rivers navigable from the sea * * * as well as upon the high seas."

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