WHELAN
v.
THE UNITED STATES
WHELAN
THE UNITED STATES
7 Cranch 112
Supreme Court of the United States (1812)
Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 3 L. Ed. 286 · 1812 U.S. LEXIS 374 · SCDB 1812-008
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C. J. Hendry Co. v. Moore, 318 U.S. 133 (U.S. 1943)…forfeiture exclusive: “The reason of the legislature for putting seizures of this kind on the admiralty side of the court was the great danger to the revenue, if such cases should be left to the caprice of juries.” p. 446. Whelan v. United States, 7 Cranch 112. “This Court decided, as early as 1805 (2 Cranch 405), in the case of the Sally, that the forfeiture of a vessel, under the Act of Congress against the slave-trade, was a case of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and not of common law. And so it…1 / 2