 | United States - Naval law - 1945 - 724 pages
...provided for *h~ |rnrn' rrtinim of persons convicted of murder, -robbery and other offenses if committed "upon the high seas, or in any, river} haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of~any particular state." In United States v. Bevans. 3 Wheat. 336, Feb. 21, 1818, it was held that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 1042 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 in any... | |
 | Hersch Lauterpacht - Law - 1956 - 492 pages
...3o, 179o, i Stat. 112. One section of that statute dealt with murder committed on the high seas, or any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state. Another section of the same statute dealt with manslaughter committed upon the high seas, but... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 756 pages
...committed on the water, and is full in the description of place. "If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin...the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder," etc. The oth section of the act applies to a citizen who shall commit any of the offenses described... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1154 pages
...according to the meaning of the Statutes of the United States which punished certain offenses committed upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin or bay "out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." The test applied in Com. v. Peters, which was decided in the year 1847, was that the place... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1152 pages
...5372) enacting that any person committing upon the high seas "murder or robbery, or any other offense which, if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws of the United States be punishable with death," should be deemed a pirate. Mr. Upshur, for the defendant, argued "that it was... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 782 pages
...of 1790 defines the piracy created by that statute to be "murder, or robbery, or any other offense which, if committed within the body of a county would, by the laws of the United States, be punishable with death." Now, as the firing by the Portuguese did no mischief, no offense was committed... | |
 | Law - 1891 - 286 pages
...place or district of the country, under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States," or " upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." In his charge to the Grand Jury for the District of Pennsylvania, in the Circuit Court of the... | |
 | Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry - History - 1985 - 652 pages
...one thousand dollars. SEC. 8. And be it [further] 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... | |
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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... 
