| United States. Department of State - 1869 - 680 páginas
...held, in a subsequent case, that " general piracy, or murder, or robbery committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state — by any persons on board of a vessel not at the time belonging to the subjects of any foreign... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1869 - 688 páginas
...within the territorial jurisdiction, 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... | |
| Ezra Champion Seaman - 1870 - 304 páginas
...first Congress, provided for the punishment of piracy, murder, or robbery, committed on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State ; for the punishment of any person guilty of wilful murder or manslaughter, committed within... | |
| Thomas Sergeant, John Cole Lowber, Thomas M'Kean Pettit, George Sharswood, Henry Wharton, Samuel Dickson, James Parsons, William Wynne Wister - 1872 - 556 páginas
...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 "... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1874 - 622 páginas
...the 8th section of which provides, " 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, murder or robbery, or any other offence, which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws... | |
| Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 páginas
...the 8th section of which provides, " 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, murder or robbery, or any other offence, which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 páginas
...(30th April, 1 790, c. 36) provided for the punishment of certain crimes committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State. The 12th section provided for the punishment of manslaughter committed itpon the high seas',... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1874 - 970 páginas
...of the act of April 30th, 1790, " for the punishment of murder, &c., committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," it is not the offence committed, but the bay, &c., in which it is committed, that must be out... | |
| 1874 - 1178 páginas
...define piracy by the Act of April 30, 1790 : " 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,tt murder or robbery or any other offences which, if committed within the body of a country,... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Robert William Hughes - 1880 - 750 páginas
...3168, Gordon's Digest, 929, 930. Trial of Edward Clements. If any person commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, murder or robbery, or any other offence which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws... | |
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