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Enacted in 1920 (46 U.S.C.A. Â§ 688) the Jones Act provides a remedy to sailors for injuries or death resulting from the Negligence of an owner, a master, or a fellow sailor of a vessel. The federal Jones Act defines the legal rights of seamen who are injured or killed in the course of maritime service.
Jones Act was named after Senator Wesley L Jones, the leading. sponsor of the 1920 Act. Section 27 of the 1920 Act covering the movement of âmerchan-. dise,â and the subject of this article, can be traced back to a law en-. acted in 1789 preferring US vessels to foreign vessels in US domestic.