An Act to extend the Jurisdiction and improve the Practice of the High Court of Admiralty (The Admiralty Court Act, 1861)
WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the Jurisdiction and improve the Practice of the High Court of Admiralty of England: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: