 | Criticism - 1865 - 836 pages
...I. Stat. 112.) " If any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies,...open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person or persons shall... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...Congress assembled, That if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies,...open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person or persons shall... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...ยง 1. That if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levywar against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving...open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person or persons shall... | |
 | John Wesley Monette - America - 1846 - 634 pages
...or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war againit them, or shatt adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort...open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses, to the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person, or persons,... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...is enacted, "That if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America shall , and harder to be defended by" fact; it is one thing,...is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought s the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person or persons shall... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...is enacted, " That if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies,...open Court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person or persons shall... | |
 | John Wesley Monette - America - 1848 - 642 pages
..." that if any person, or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy tear against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving...open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses, to the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person, or persons,... | |
 | Benjamin Chaplin Pressley - Constables - 1848 - 552 pages
...if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war igainst them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them...open Court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person or persons shall... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 660 pages
...which declares that, if any person or persons owing allegiance to the United States of America shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies,...and comfort, within the United States or elsewhere, he or they shall be adjudged guilty of treason. And the reason is plain, since his allegiance in such... | |
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That if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, and shall be thereof convicted, on confession... 
