 | William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined not exceeding one thousand dollars. 9. SECT. VIII. If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, bason or b;>y, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or rcbbery, or any other offence... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...3, Wilful murder, committed in any place under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States,6 or upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay not within the jurisdiction of any particular state. f 4. Manslaughter committed in 'any place under... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1807 - 532 pages
...Francois. The indictment was founded on the 8th section of the penal law (1 vol. 102.) which provides " that if any person, or persons, " shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, bason, " or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder, " &c. every such offender... | |
 | William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...serve for other cases. PIRACY. BY act of April thirtieth, 1 790 (Lams U. 5. vol. ip 102, sect. 8.) " If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, bason or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence,... | |
 | Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - Maritime law - 1810 - 674 pages
...//cn.8. c. 15.1.3. (I) The Act of the US 30. April, 17i)0, (1 USL 100.) ch.S.sect. 8. provides, "thatif any person or persons shall commit " upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, bason or bay, out of the " jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any " other... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 516 pages
...courts of the United States having cognisance of the offence. It applies only to offences committed upon the " high seas, or in any river, haven, basin...or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." * 122 *The courts of the United States erected in the terterritory of Orleans, a district court... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 956 pages
...States," and was, therefore, not within the prohibition of this section of the act. By the eighth section it is enacted " that if any person or persons shall...the jurisdiction of any particular State, murder, he shall suffer death * * * *; and the trial of crimes committed on the high seas, or in any place... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), John Gallison - Law reports, digests, etc - 1815 - 696 pages
...authority of the admiralty, perhaps to a more enlarged extent.1 The additional words of the act, " in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," refer to such places without any of the United States, and not without foreign states, as will... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 786 pages
...committed on land ; and that such piracy is cognizable in the circuit court. The words of the statute are, "That if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas," &c. " murder or robbery, or any other offence, which, if committed within the body of a county, would,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1818 - 712 pages
...act of 1790, ch. 8. 21. provided for the punishment of murder, &c. committed upon 29. the hijih sras, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of nny particular 23. stdte, it is not the offence committed, but tiie bay . &c.in which it is committed,... | |
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