 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...  A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanorsby William Oldnall Russell - 1824Full view - About this book
 | William Graydon - 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 - 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 - 1807 - 532 pages
...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 - 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) - 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 - 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 - 956 pages
...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 commit upon the high...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 - 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 - 1816 - 786 pages
...section of the act on which these prisoners were indicted is in these words : *' And be it enacted, that if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, havea, bason, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1818 - 712 pages
...the authority of the United StOte» T. tad the statute of 1790, ch. 9. declaring, that "if any person shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river,...haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any pArtitalar state, murder, &c. he shall on conviction suffer deatfc," and that "if any person or person*... | |
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