vice-admiralty courts

vice-admiralty courts
Inferior courts of admiralty in the American Colonies and other settlements, from which appeals lay to the courts of admiralty in England, though they could also be brought before the king in council. See 3 Bl Comm 69.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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