11 Justice Stone cited the Maryland liber in United States v. Flores, 289 U.S. 137, 151 (1933), to demonstrate the broad criminal jurisdiction accorded to vice-admiralty judges in their commissions. In C.J. Hendry Co. v. Moore, 318 U.S. 133 (1943), Stone, who was then Chief Justice, invoked colonial admiralty practice, such as that in the Provincial Court of Maryland, to sustain the forfeiture of a vessel by a state common law court.