| Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 764 pages
...Act of Congress of April 30, 1790, chap. 9, provides: Sect. 8. 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 piratic. illy... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...8th section of the act of 1790, chapter 9th, provided for the punishment of murder, &c. committed " upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State," it is not the offence committed, but the bay, &c. in which it is committed, that must be out... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...Journal, 154. , ' The Act of Congress of April 30, 1790, provides: If any perron or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, oat of Hie jurisdiction of any particular State, murder or robbery, or any other offence, which, if... | |
| Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 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 ad. judged a pirate and felon, and punished with death. And if a... | |
| United States - Law - 1850 - 886 pages
...exceeding one thousand dollars. SEC. 8. Andbeit[further]enacted,Thal if any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin...the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or ffcbbery, or any other offence which if committed within the body of a county, would by the Murder... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...the high seas, or in any *185 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 - Criminal law - 1851 - 704 pages
...section de- N'W YORK, , u ,' '. SeP'' 1823clares, " that if any person or persons shall commit, vj^v.^( upon the high seas, or in a.ny river, haven, basin or bay, The U. states out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or vrobbery, or any other offence,... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 600 pages
...1790 uses as broad language as the act before us, namely : "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," <&c. 1 LUS p. 113. And the language thus used was not qualified by the phrase which is found... | |
| Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...the master from fighting in defence of the ship or cargo; or of making a revolt upon the high seas, 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 April,... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 696 pages
...or persons, who shall impress any seamen on board any vessel bearing the flag of the United States, { ݘ #/ 8[ +M A W tC VF F~> j ǎ oe under pretext or color of a commission from any foreign Power, shall, for every such offence be adjudged... | |
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