 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...personal property. " If any person" says a law of the United States, " shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder, or robbery, or any other offence, which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), John Gallison - Law reports, digests, etc - 1815 - 696 pages
...authority of the admiralty, perhaps to a more enlarged extent.1 The additional words of the act, " in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," refer to such places without any of the United States, and not without foreign states, as will... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1818 - 712 pages
...T. tad the statute of 1790, ch. 9. declaring, that "if any person shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any pArtitalar state, murder, &c. he shall on conviction suffer deatfc," and that "if any person or person*... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Criminal law - 1819 - 850 pages
...the act of 1790, ch. 9. provided for tht punishment of murder, ike. committed " upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any state," it is not the ofience committed, hut the bay, ts.c. in which it is committed, that must be... | |
 | Edward Ingersoll - Law - 1821 - 884 pages
...exceeding one thousand dollars. 9. SEc. vin. If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence which if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1824 - 594 pages
...colour of any commission from any L 136] " If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence, which if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 768 pages
...ch. 9, sec. 8, which provides for the punishment of piracy and felony, "committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." It xvill be observed, this act does not use the word coast, but evidently must have included... | |
 | Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 514 pages
...the United States," it is enacted, " that if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence, which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws... | |
 | Law - 1835 - 520 pages
...Thus it is enacted by the 8th section, that ' if any person shall commit murder upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state,' &c. But, in providing in the 12th section for the punishment of manslaughter, in describing... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1833 - 646 pages
...that if any committed person, or persons, shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any "^ tt fore'Sa river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder, or robbery, or any other offence, &c. The sec. 12 declares, that if any seamen, or other person, shall... | |
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