 | Law - 1874 - 1182 pages
...power, Congress proceeded to define piracy by the Act of April 30, 1790 : " 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,tt murder or robbery or any other offences which, if committed within the body of a country,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1874 - 984 pages
...provided in the 8th 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... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 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 itpon the high seas',... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1116 pages
...offense charged, for the reason that the act gives such courts cognizance only of certain offenses on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay "out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," and that the offense, having been committed in the Boston Harbor, was not out of the jurisdiction... | |
 | William Edward Miller - Courts - 1881 - 728 pages
...jurisdiction is limited to the high seas.— Federal courts have jurisdiction to try for murder committed "upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." But they have no jurisdiction to try for murder committed on board a vessel of the United States... | |
 | Frank Warren Hackett - Alabama claims - 1882 - 236 pages
...river, as that the words of the eighth section of the act regarding the crime of murder, " if any person shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river,...the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder, &c./' descriptive of the place of the commitment of the crime — should be grafted on the twelfth... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 790 pages
...the 8th section of the act of 1790, eh. 9, provided for the punishment of murder, &c., committed " upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out cif the Jurisdiction of any particular state," it is not the offense committed, but the bay, Jte.,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1266 pages
...the court held, not coming within the description in section 8 of the act of April 30, 1700, c. 9, "upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." But the Jurisdiction of the circuit court of the United States was also sought to be maintained... | |
 | John Worth Edmonds - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 500 pages
...State, and the law of congress gave the United States courts cognizance only of " offenses 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... | |
 | Erastus Thatcher - Court rules - 1884 - 564 pages
...the eighth section of the act of 1790, ch. 9, provided 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 offense committed, but the bay, &c., in which it is committed, that must be out... | |
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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. 
