 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...ambassadors. 3. Piracy. «. What is piracy ?— 71-73. The offense of piracy, by common law, consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas, which, if committed upon land, would have amounted to felony. CHAPTER VI, OF HIGH TREASON. 1. Into what kinds may those... | |
 | Thomas Brett - English law - 1891 - 822 pages
...fine, imprisonment, and whipping. OFFENCES AGAINST THE LAW OF NATIONS. The offence of piracy consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas and within the juiisdiction of the Admiralty ( ') , which, if committed upon land, would have amounted... | |
 | George Wesley Hale - Police - 1892 - 306 pages
...Personating officer is the representing one's self to be an officer, for purposes of fraud. Piracy consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas which, if committed upon land, would have amounted to felony there. It has been enlarged by statute. Poison, sale of. The... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1892 - 956 pages
...their goods or treasure." And again : " A pirate, at the common law, is a person who commits any of those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas which, if committed on hind, would amount to felony there." 1 Hawk. PC Curw. ed. p. 251, § 1,3. Russell — follows the last... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...III. c. 2, it is held to be only felony in a subject. The offence of piracy, by common law, consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas which, if committed upon land, would have amounted to felony there. CHAPTER VI. OF HIGH TREASON. ALI.KtilAM'K AM» THK... | |
 | John Gardner Hawley, Malcolm McGregor - Criminal law - 1896 - 350 pages
...PIRACY. Piracy is an offense against the unwritten law known as the law of nations. Piracy consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas which if committed upon land, would have amounted to a felony.' The United States constitution provides that Congress... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...III., c. 2, it is held to be only felony in a subject. The offence of piracy, by common law, consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas, which, if committed upon land, would have amounted to felony there. Chapter VI. OF HIGH TREASON. 74-94Allegiance and the... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers, Douglas Owen - Insurance law - 1901 - 216 pages
...according to Sir Edward Coke, hostis humani generis .... The offence of piracy, by common law, consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas which if •committed upon land would have amounted to felony there. But by statute some other offences are made piracy also."... | |
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THE offence of piracy, by common law, consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas, which, if committed upon land, would have amounted to felony there ". But, by statute, some other offences are made piracy also: as... 
