 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...war against this country, would seem to bring himself within the act of Congress which declares that, if any person or persons owing allegiance to the United...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... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - International law - 1855 - 938 pages
...war against this country, would seem to bring himself within the act of Congress which declares, that if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the...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... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - International law - 1855 - 942 pages
...war against this country, would seem to bring himself within the act of Congress which declares, that if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the...giving them aid and comfort within the United States or ebewhere, he or they shall be adjudged guilty of treason. And the reason is plain, since his allegiance... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 778 pages
...two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court." Const. US art. iii. e. 3, pi. 1. If any person or persons owing allegiance to the United...within the United States or elsewhere, and shall be convicted on confession in open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of... | |
 | David Lee Child - Slavery - 1861 - 48 pages
...shall suffer death; " and by a law of 1790, "If any person, owing allegiance to the United States, shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their...States or elsewhere, and shall be thereof convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of treason against the United States, and shall suffer death." It was decided... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...which it is declared : " If any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United Tho Law of Treason. States of America, shall levy war against them, or...United States, or elsewhere, and shall be thereof confided, on confession in open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1865 - 806 pages
...the person attainted."2 Therefore the statute of April 30, 1790, denned the offence as follows : " If any person or persons, owing allegiance to the...confession in open court, or on the testimony of two wituesses to the same overt act of the treason whereof he or they shall stand indicted, such person... | |
 | Frederick Charles Brightly - Law - 1865 - 1152 pages
...offences In one indictment. 118. Courts may discharge grand jurors. I. OFFENCES AGAINST GOVERNMENT, (a) 1. ghtly America,(Z>) so April n shall levy war against them,(c) or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Great Britain - 1866 - 780 pages
...two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court." Cqnst. US art. iii. s. 3, pi. 1. If any person or persons owing allegiance to the United...comfort within the United States or elsewhere, and shall he convicted on confession in open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act... | |
 | William B. Wedgwood - Law - 1866 - 494 pages
...fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding three years. 4. If any person owing allegiance to the United States of America shall...shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort, he shall be adjudged guilty of treason against the United States, and shall suffer death.... | |
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Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason. 
