 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 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 - United States - 956 pages
...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 seas, or in any river,...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 - 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 786 pages
...in the Sth section of the act of 1790, cb. 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 ^articular slate," it is not the ofTence committed, but the bay, &cin which it is committed, that must... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1818 - 712 pages
...the authority of the United StOteğ 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*... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1818 - 712 pages
...act of 1790, ch. 8. 21. provided for the punishment of murder, &c. committed upon 29. the hijih sras, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of nny particular 23. stdte, it is not the offence committed, but tiie bay . &c.in which it is committed,... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Criminal law - 1819 - 852 pages
...the 8th section of the act of 1790, ch. 9. provided for tht punishment of murder, ike. committed " upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any state," it is not the ofience committed, hut the bay, ts.c. in which it is committed, that must be... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 662 pages
...provisions of the 8th section of the act of 1790.' a Which provides, " That if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or Voi. V,. If 1820. Fourth, That the act of the 30th of April, 1790, u. states ^th section, " entitled... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 620 pages
...fined not exceeding one thousand dollars. SEC. VIII. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, er bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, murder Ğr robbery, or any other offence,... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 768 pages
...Congress of 1790, ch. 9, sec. 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 xvill be observed, this act does not use the word coast, but evidently must have included... | |
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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. 
