saving to suitors clause

saving-to-suitors clause. Maritime law. In the federal statutory provision granting admiralty and maritime jurisdiction to the federal courts, a clause that preserves the option to file suit in a nonadmiralty court. 28 USCA § 1333(1). • The nonadmiralty court is typically either a state court or a law-side federal court. Under the reverse-Erie doctrine, the nonadmiralty court is required to apply the same law that the admiralty court would have used. — Also termed saving clause. [Cases: Admiralty

2. C.J.S. Admiralty §§ 13–18.]

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