 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...United States." That section gives the courts of the union cognizance of certain offences committed on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay out of the jurisdiction of anj particular state. Whatever may be the constitutional power of congress, it is clear that this power... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Economics - 1839 - 472 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 a pirate and felon, and punished with death. And if a captain... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Maritime law - 1841 - 488 pages
...hindering and preventing the master from fighting in defence of the ship or cargo, and of making a revolt, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State of the United States. These are all capital offences, by the act of Congress 30th of April, 1790,... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...congress of .'•i0th of April, 1790, s. 8, 1 Story's LUS 84, enacts, that if any person shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin,...the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder, dec., which, if 630 HIR 631 committed within the body of a county would, by the laws of the United... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...one thousand dollars. SEC. S. Andbeit[further]enacted,'rhut. if any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin...committed within the body of a county, would by the Murder in a fort or arsenal, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U. s. to punish with death. Act... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - Banks and banking - 1845 - 624 pages
...on the high seas, or in any river, harbor, 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. And it... | |
 | Commerce - 1845 - 604 pages
...on the. high seas, or in any river, harbor, 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. And it... | |
 | 1845 - 604 pages
...on the high seas, or in any river, harbor, 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. And it... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 720 pages
...Congress : By the act of April 30, 1790, it is enacted, § 8, "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, murderer robbery, or any other offence, which, if committed within the body of a county, would,... | |
 | Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - Maritime law - 1846 - 1088 pages
...The Act of Congress of 30th of April, 1790, ch. 36, S 8, provides, " that if any person shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular Slate, murder, or robbery, or any olher offence, which, if committed within the body of a couuly, would,... | |
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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... 
