 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...  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 236by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, Elijah W. Meddaugh, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Marquis B. Eaton, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1860Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 522 pages
...certain crimes against the United 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,... | |
 | Law - 1835 - 520 pages
...ground of its opinion. Thus it is enacted by the 8th section, that ' if any person shall commit murder upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state,' &c. But, in providing in the 12th section for the punishment of manslaughter, in describing... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1833 - 646 pages
...that if any committed person, or persons, shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any "^ tt fore'Sa river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder, or robbery, or any other offence, &c. The sec. 12 declares, that if any seamen, or other... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1836 - 644 pages
...the authority of the admiralty, perhaps to a more enlarged extent. 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... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...United States." That section gives the courts of the union cognizance of certain offences committed on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay out of the jurisdiction of anj particular state. Whatever may be the constitutional power of congress, it is clear that this power... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Maritime law - 1841 - 488 pages
...hindering and preventing the master from fighting in defence of the ship or cargo, and of making a revolt, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State of the United States. These are all capital offences, by the act of Congress 30th of April, 1790,... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...congress of .'•i0th of April, 1790, s. 8, 1 Story's LUS 84, 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, dec., which, if 630 HIR 631 committed within the body of a county would, by the laws... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...one thousand dollars. SEC. S. Andbeit[further]enacted,'rhut. 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 Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - Maritime law - 1846 - 1088 pages
...The Act of Congress of 30th of April, 1790, ch. 36, S 8, provides, " 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 Slate, murder, or robbery, or any olher offence, which, if committed within the body of a couuly, would,... | |
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