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 THE TBENTON. 659 �of Mrhat are generally known as maritime cases, vîz. : Sea- men's and master's wages, pilotage, salvage, towage, damage, bottomry bonds, payments of mortgages from the proceedsof sale, possessory suits, and, among others, (subdivision 10,) "claims for necessaries supplied in the possession in which the court is established, to any ship of which no owner or part owner is domiciled within the possession at the time of the necessaries being supplied." �In considering the effect of this sale, I must assume that the dominion parliament had the requisite authority to establish this court, and that it possesses the powers and jurisdiction which the act purports to vest in it. While not strictly a ' vice-admiralty court, (the judges of which hold their commis- sions directly from the crown,) its jurisdiction is nearly if not quite identical with those courts, and we are bound to give its proceedings such faith and credit as is given to them. �That the sale of a vessel, made pursuant to the decree of a foreign court of admiralty, wUl be held valid in every other country, and will vest a clear and indefeasible title in the purchaser, is entirely settled, both in England and America. Story on Conflict of Laws, § 592; Williams v. Armroyd, 7 Cr. 423 ; The Tremont, 1 W. Rob. 163 ; The Mary, 9 Cr. 126 ; The Amelie, 6 Wall. 18; The Granite State, 1 Sprague, 277. In the case of The Hekna, i Eob. Adm. 4, this doctrine was carried so far as to sustain a sale made after a capture by pirates. See, also, Grant v. McLaughlin, 4 John. 84. �These cases fully establish the doctrine stated by Mr. Jus- tice Story, (Conflict of Laws, § 592,) that "whatever the court settles as to the right or title, or whatever disposition it makes of the property by sale, revendication, transfer, or other àct, will be held valid in every other country where the same ques- tion cornes directly or indirectly in judgment before any other foreign tribunal. This is very familiarly known in the cases of proceedings in rem in foreign courts of admiralty, whether they are causes of prize, or of bottomry, or of salvage, or of forfeiture, or of any of the like nature over which courts have a rigKtful jurisdiction, founded upon the actual, rightful, or ����