 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 680 pages
...nations. The act of Congress of the 30th of April, 1790, provides " that if any person shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin,...particular State, murder, or robbery, or any other offense which, if committed within the body of a country, would by the laws of the United States be... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 688 pages
...nations. The act of Congress of the 30th of April, 1790, provides " that if any person shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay ont of the jurisdiction of any particular State, murder, or robbery, or any other oft'ense which, if... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - United States - 1870 - 334 pages
...act of the first Congress, provided for the punishment of piracy, murder, or robbery, committed on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State ; for the punishment of any person guilty of wilful murder or manslaughter, committed within... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant, John Cole Lowber, Thomas M'Kean Pettit, George Sharswood, Henry Wharton, Samuel Dickson, James Parsons, William Wynne Wister - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 556 pages
...jurisdiction of the United States, but which are not piracy by the law of nations — viz., Robbery " in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state" of the United States, upon any vessel, or upon the lading or ship's Company of any vessel "... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 622 pages
...Stat. at Large, 113,) the 8th section of which provides, " 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, * * * * every such offender shall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to be a pirate... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - Criminal law - 1879 - 838 pages
...Stat. at Large, 113), the 8th section of which provides, " 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, .... everv such offender shall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to be a pirate... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 1178 pages
...Congress proceeded to define piracy by the Act of April 30, 1790 : " 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,tt murder or robbery or any other offences which, if committed within the body of a country,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...the United States (30th April, 1 790, c. 36) provided for the punishment of certain crimes committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State. The 12th section provided for the punishment of manslaughter committed itpon the high seas',... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1874 - 970 pages
...provided in the 8th section of the act of April 30th, 1790, " 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... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1878 - 588 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 body of a country, would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death, should be adjudged to be... | |
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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... 
