2. Sources in United States.—
In the United States, the maritime law is to be found in the Statutes or Acts of Congress and decisions of the Federal Courts. These decisions are published in the United States Reports, Federal Cases and Federal Reporter. In addition there are numerous text-books, among which may be mentioned Parsons on Shipping and Admiralty; Benedict's Admiralty; Hughes on Admiralty; Desty on Shipping and Admiralty; Spencer on Collisions and Flanders on Maritime Law. The highest authority is, of course, to be found in the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.