 | United States - Constitutional law - 1796 - 508 pages
...fhip or goods committed to his truft, or fhall make a revolt in the fhip ; every fuch offender fhall be deemed, taken and adjudged to be a pirate and felon, and being thereof convicted, fhall fuffer death : and the trial of crimes committed on the high feas, or in any place out of the... | |
 | William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...commander, thereby to hinder and prevent his fighting in defence of his ship or goods committed to hi« trust, or shall make a revolt in the ship ; every...adjudged to be a pirate and felon, and being, thereof con vidted, shall suffer death : And the trial of crimes committed on the high seas, or in any place... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws of the United States, be punished with death ; every such offender shall be deemed, taken and adjudged...felon, and being thereof convicted shall suffer death." u By the ancient common law, piracy committed by a subject was deemed a species of treason. v According... | |
 | William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...lay violent hands upon his commander, thereby to hinder and prevent his fighting in defence of his ship or goods committed to his trust, or shall make...being thereof convicted, shall suffer death ; and the t > ial of crimes committo! on the high seas, or in any place out of the jurisdiction of any particular... | |
 | Thomas Bee, United States. District Court (South Carolina) - Admiralty - 1810 - 580 pages
...voluntarily to a pirate, or if any seaman shall lay violent hands on his commander, to prevent his fighting, or shall make a revolt in the ship, every such offender shall be adjudged a pirate, and a felon. The persons who are the objects of this section of the act are all... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1530 pages
...feloniously run away with. Wi'/i or vessel, or any goods or merchandise to the value of fifty dollars, fee., every such offender shall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to be a pirate ind a felon, and, being thereof convicted, shall suffer death." The acts neMssary to constitute the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 786 pages
...the United States, be punishaVOL. III. 79 IBIS. ble with death ;" &c. " every such offender shall b« deemed, taken, and adjudged to be a pirate and felon,...and being thereof convicted, shall suffer death," &c. The relative pronoun " uVhc/i" does not relate back to the first specified offences of" murder... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...violent hands upon > his commander, thereby to prevent his fighting in defence of • 'his vessel, or goods committed to his trust,' or shall make a revolt in the vesse.1 ; such person shall be deemed a pirate and a felon, and on conviction shall suffer death. If... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1818 - 712 pages
...hands upon his commander, thereby to hinder an ! prevent his fighting in defence of his ship, or goo-Is committed to his trust* or shall 'make a revolt in the ship; every such offend er shall be deeme.l, taken, an'' adjudged to be a pirate and felon, and being thereof convicted,... | |
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... if any seaman shall lay violent hands upon his commander, thereby to hinder and prevent his fighting in defence of his ship or goods committed to his trust, or shall make a revolt in the ship ; every such offender shall be deemed, taken and adjudged... 
