 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...property. " If any person" says a law of the United States, " 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,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 516 pages
...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. 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 - Courts - 1818 - 712 pages
...1790, ch. 9. 21. provided for the punishment of murder, &c. committed upon 22. the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular 23. st.ite, it is not the offence committed, but the h;iy. ttc.iu whic.h it is committed, that must... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 620 pages
...from punishment those who shall be accessories before the fact to a murder or robbery committed " in a river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any State ;" and now, as then, the argument has great weight. But it is again to be observed, that the... | |
 | Edward Ingersoll - Law - 1821 - 882 pages
...thousand dollars. 9. SEc. vin. 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... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 764 pages
...8, which provides for the punishment of piracy and felony, "committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." It will be observed, this act does not use the word const, but evidently must have included the sea coasts... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 768 pages
...crimes. The section 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." Held, this is to be construed to mean a bay &.c. which is out of the jurisdiction of any particular... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1824 - 594 pages
...any commission from any L 136] " 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... | |
 | Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 522 pages
...States," it is 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 offence, which, if committed within the body of a county, would,... | |
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