 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1030 pages
...meaning of the statutes of the United States which punished certain offenses committed upon the higl seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay "out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." The test applied in Commonwealth v. Peters, 12 Met. 387, which was decided in the year 1847,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1894 - 782 pages
...the court held, not coming within the description in section 8 of the act of April 30, 1790, c. 9, "upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of anv particular State." But the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the United States was also sought... | |
 | James Wilson - Constitutional law - 1895 - 642 pages
...laws of self defence, every community has a right to inflict upon him that punishment, which, in at state of nature, every individual would be entitled to inflict for any invasion of his person or his personal property.3 " If any person," says a law of the United States, "shall commit, upon the... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall - Criminal law - 1905 - 952 pages
...Offenses there committed are not within the act of congress punishing murder and other offenses "committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," but such offenses are punishable in the state courts as offenses against the state.301 (?)... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 pages
...according to the meaning of the statutes of the United States which punished certain offences committed upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin, or bay " out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." The test applied in Commonwealth v. Peters, which was decided in the year 1847, was that the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1558 pages
...according to the meaning of the Statutes of the United 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." The test applied in Com. v. Peteri, which was decided in the year 1847, was that the place... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs - United States - 1902 - 930 pages
...intendment, as in the instances of Louisiana, California, and Texas. committed on the " high seas" or any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State.'' (Sec. 8, chap. 9, act approved April 30, 1790; 1 Stats., 113.) The United States Supreme Court... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 828 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. i The court was constituted as follows: JOHN MARSHALL, Chief Justine. BUSHBOD WASHINGTON, WILLIAM... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 830 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. 1 The court was constituted as follows: JOHN MARSHALL, Chief Justice. BUSHROD WASHINGTON, WILLIAM... | |
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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. 
