 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1905 - 518 pages
...United States." That section gives the courts of the Union cognizance of certain offenses committed on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state. 274 Whatever may be the constitutional power of Congress it is clear that this power has not... | |
 | John Romain Rood - Criminal law - 1906 - 648 pages
...States," §8. That section gives the courts of the union cognizance of certain offenses committed on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state. Whatever may be the constitutional power of congress, it is clear that this power has not been... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1910 - 1060 pages
...1790, which limited the punishment of certain enumerated crimes by the United States to those committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state. But I apprehend it may fairly be doubted whether the Constitution of the United States meant,... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1908 - 822 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... | |
 | Ellery Cory Stowell - Consular law - 1909 - 852 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1336 pages
...judgment, shows, that in order to constitute 1. — Which provides, "That If nny person or per•ons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river,...the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or rolihery, or any other offense, which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 740 pages
...Digs. 1907 to date, ft Rtp'r Indexes of murder, ая well ля certain other crimes, when committed "upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin,...or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." The act was remolded by the act of March 3, 1825, chap. 65, § 4, page 115, 4 Stat. at L. (US... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 700 pages
...the 8th section of the act of 17ПО, ch. 9, provided for the punishment of murder, etc., committed "upon the high seas, or In any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of •ny particular state," It Is not the offense committed, but the bay, etc., In which It Is committed,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1910 - 718 pages
...to the words in § 4 of the act of 1825, above referred to, that "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. Bureau of Insular Affairs - United States - 1912 - 762 pages
...jurisdiction was asserted over the crime of murder, as well as certain other crimes, when committed "upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." The act was remodeled by the act of March 3,1825 (ch. 65, sec. 4, p. 115, 4 Stat. L.). 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. 
