 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 726 pages
...particular act of Con. state, murder or robbery, or any other offence, which if comMur.3, 1SI9.J mitted within the body of a county, would, by the laws of the United Slates, be punishable with death ; or if any captain, or mariner, of any ship or other vessel, shall... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1826 - 518 pages
...apply to the present case. The Crimes Act of 1790, defines the piracy created by that statute to be " murder, or robbery, or any other offence, which, if...county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death." Now, as the firing by the Portuguese did no mischief, no offence was committed,... | |
 | Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 522 pages
...certain crimes against the United States," it is enacted, " that if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin,...county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death ; or if any captain or mariner of any ship or other vessel, shall piratically... | |
 | Law - 1835 - 520 pages
...ground of its opinion. Thus it is enacted by the 8th section, that ' if any person shall commit murder upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state,' &c. But, in providing in the 12th section for the punishment of manslaughter, in describing... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 708 pages
...ihe high sens, or in any river, haven or bny, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, commit murder or robbery, or any other offence which, if...within the body of a county, would, by the laws of the U. Statrs, be punishable with death, such offender is to be deemed a pirate. By the act of congress... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...on the high seas, or in any river, haven, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, or any other offence, which, if committed within the...county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death, should be adjudged to be piracy and felony, and punishable with 'death. It was... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1833 - 646 pages
...that if any committed person, or persons, shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any "^ tt fore'Sa river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction...particular state, murder, or robbery, or any other offence, &c. The sec. 12 declares, that if any seamen, or other person, shall commit manslaughter upon the high... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 618 pages
...the high seas, or in any river, haven or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, commit murder or robbery, or any other offence which, if...within the body of a county, would, by the laws of the U. States, be punishable with death, such offender is to be deemed a pirate. By the act of congress... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Civics - 1835 - 316 pages
...out of the jurisdiction of a state, murder or robbery, or any other offence which, if Committed in the body of a county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death, he shall be adjudged to be a pirate and a felon, and punishable with death.... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1836 - 644 pages
...the authority of the admiralty, perhaps to a more enlarged extent. 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... | |
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that if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state... 
