 | John Bouvier - 1914 - 1124 pages
...congress of April 30, 1790, s. 8, enacts' that 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, etc., . which if committed within the body of a county would, by the laws of the United... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 970 pages
...0, section 8, providing for the punishment of murder, etc., committed " upon the high seas, or any river, haven, basin, or bay. out of the jurisdiction of any particular State," it is not the offense, but the bay, etc.. In which It Is committed, that must be out of the jurisdiction... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 922 pages
...section 8, providing for the punishment of murder, etc., committi-d " upon the 'hl;?h seas, or any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular Kiate," It Is not the offense, but the bay, etc., In which it is committed, that must be out of the... | |
 | William Mark McKinney - 1918 - 1444 pages
...But under a statute providing that if any person or persons shall commit, on 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,... | |
 | Elijah Nathaniel Zoline - 1921 - 650 pages
...Provision was also made for the punishment of certain offenses committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State.31 Viscount Bryce, writing in his American Commonwealth, volume 2 (1st ed.), p. 497, and commenting... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, James Brown Scott - 1923 - 770 pages
...pirate, 1 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... | |
 | 1925 - 1184 pages
...text of § 8 is as follows: " 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... | |
 | Charles Willis Needham - 1925 - 772 pages
...statutes of the United States, which punished certain offenses committed upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin, or bay "out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." The test applied in Commonwealth v. Peters, which was decided in the year 1847, was that the... | |
 | United States - 1927 - 702 pages
...1790, c. 9, § 8, providing for the punishment of murder, etc., committed "upon the high seas, or any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," it was not the offense, but the bay, etc., In which It was committed, that must be out of the jurisdiction... | |
 | 1928 - 1142 pages
...(1 Stat. 112, 113), provided : "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, • • • every such offender shall be deemed, taken and adjudged to be a pirate and... | |
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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... 
