Admiralty court
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Admiralty courts, also known as maritime courts, are courts exercising jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries, and offenses.
Edinburgh's West Register House houses the records of the Scottish Admiralty Court.
Cartoon showing the Duke of Wellington; King George IV and George's brother William holding the Silver Oar of the Admiralty
Silver Oars—Insignia of Office of the Water Baliffs of Colchester
Foundation of the alliance between Lübeck and Hamburg in the part about ship law (Van schiprechte) in the Hamburg city right from 1497
Sovereign citizen movement
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The sovereign citizen movement is a loose group of anti-government activists, conspiracy theorists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters and financial scammers found mainly in English-speaking common l
Admiralty court
…have jurisdiction over all admiralty and maritime actions; see 28 U.S.C. § 1333. In recent years, a pseudolegal conspiracy argument used notably by sovereign citizens is that an American court displaying an American flag with a gold fringe is in fact an "admiralty court" and thus has no jurisdiction. Courts have…
Cliven and Ammon Bundy, two American activists who became associated with the sovereign citizen movement during the 2010s
The site of the 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade attack, a violent crime linked to the sovereign citizen movement
American activist David Zion Brugger, showing an irregular "identity document" asserting him to be a "citizen of Heaven"
A car with an irregular sovereign citizen license plate.