 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - 1880 - 742 páginas
...929, 930. Trial of Edward Clements. If any person commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haveu, 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... | |
 | William Edward Miller - 1881 - 728 páginas
...the high seas.— Federal courts have jurisdiction to try for murder committed "upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." But they have no jurisdiction to try for murder committed on board a vessel of the United States... | |
 | Frank Warren Hackett - 1882 - 236 páginas
...section of the act regarding the crime of murder, " if any person shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder, &c./' descriptive of the place of the commitment of the crime — should be grafted on the twelfth section.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 784 páginas
...SEC. VIII. And be It enacted. That if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or iu any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offense, which, if committed within the bodv of a county, would, by the laws... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 796 páginas
...act murder is made cognizable in the courts of the United States, if committed " upon the high sea*, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." 34O*] To sustain the jurisdiction *in this case, then, it must appear, either that the place... | |
 | John Worth Edmonds - 1883 - 500 páginas
...of congress gave the United States courts cognizance only of " offenses committed on the high seas or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." It was also held that the cession of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction to the federal courts... | |
 | 1894 - 1266 páginas
...coming within the description in section 8 of the act of April 30, 1700, c. 9, "upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." But the Jurisdiction of the circuit court of the United States was also sought to be maintained... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Albert J. Brunner - 1884 - 772 páginas
...Thus it is enacted by the eighth section that "if any person shall commit murder upoii the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State," etc. But in providing in the twelfth section for the punishment of manslaughter, in describing... | |
 | Erastus Thatcher - 1884 - 564 páginas
...the act of 1790, ch. 9, provided 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 offense committed, but the bay, &c., in which it is committed, that must be out... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1885 - 1126 páginas
...in these words: "And be it enacted, 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 offense, which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws... | |
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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... 
