 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1851 - 704 pages
...section de- N'W YORK, , u ,' '. SeP'' 1823clares, " that if any person or persons shall commit, vj^v.^( upon the high seas, or in a.ny river, haven, basin or bay, The U. states out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or vrobbery, or any other offence,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 600 pages
...Crimes act of 1790 uses as broad language as the act before us, namely : "If any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river,...or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," <&c. 1 LUS p. 113. And the language thus used was not qualified by the phrase which is found... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...the master from fighting in defence of the ship or cargo; or of making a revolt upon the high seas, in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State of the United States — these are all capital offences, by the Act of Congress, 30th April,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 696 pages
...or persons, who shall impress any seamen on board any vessel bearing the flag of the United States, { ݘ #/ 8[ +M A W tC VF F~> j ǎ oe under pretext or color of a commission from any foreign Power, shall, for every such offence be adjudged... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...state, and the law of congress gave the United States courts cognizance only of " oßences committed on the high seas or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." It was also held that the cession of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction to the federal courts,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...the United States (30th April, 1*790, c. 36) provided for the punishment of certain crimes committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State. The 12th section provided for the punishment of manslaughter committed vpon ike high seas /... | |
 | United States. Attorney-General - Administrative law - 1858 - 600 pages
...pirate is hostis humani generis, and triable in any country. Beyond this, it comprehends acts " done upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." (Act of April 30, 1790, s. 8.) All such acts, committed by Americans, are of the jurisdiction... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Admiralty - 1859 - 846 pages
...crimes against the United States. Szc. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the VOL. I. 43 . ^£3" •/ jurisdiction of any particular State, murder or robbery, or any other offence... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...in the eighth section of the act of April 30th, 1790, for the punishment of murder, &c., committed " upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," it is not the offence committed, but the bay, &c., in which it is committed, that must be out... | |
 | Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 746 pages
...1700, c. 36, § 8, providing for the punishment of murder, &c., committed " upon the high seas, or any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," it is not the offence, but the bay, &c., in which it is committed, that must be out of the... | |
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States which punished certain offenses committed upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin, or bay "out of the jurisdiction of any particular State. 
