| William Graydon - 1803 - 730 pages
...offender shall be deemed, taken and adjudged to be a pirate and felon, and being, thereof con vidted, shall suffer death : And the trial of crimes committed...apprehended, or into which he may first be brought. 10. SECT. IX. If any citizen shall commit any piracy or robberyaforesaid, or any a6t of hostility against... | |
| Alexander James Dallas - 1807 - 532 pages
...wherever committed, shall be tried by jury; and that primes committed on the high seas, shall be tried, in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may first be brought. 1 vol. s. 8. p. 102. (1) If, indeed, this reasoning fails, (!) After the death of capt. Sudden, M'Giil... | |
| William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 pages
...pirate and, felon, and being thereof convicted, shall suffer death ; and the t > ial of crimes committo! on the high seas, or in any place out of the jurisdiction...apprehended, or into which he may first be brought." Sect. 9. " If any citizen shall commit any piracy or robbery aforesaid, or any act of hostility against... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 956 pages
...or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, murder, he shall suffer death * * * *; and the trial of crimes...the offender is apprehended, or into which he may be brought." This offence was not committed on the high seas, nor in any river, haven, basin, or bay,... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1530 pages
...high seas, or in any place out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, they should take place in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may first he brought. In this case, (that is, where the crime is committed on the high seas, or out of the jurisdiction... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1818 - 712 pages
...convicted, shnll suffer death ; an 1 the trial of, crimes commiited on the high sea?, or in any p'ace out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, shall...by the laws of the United States with death, it is doubte 1 whether it is made piracy by thi* act, when committed on the high seas. The argument is understood... | |
| Edward Ingersoll - 1821 - 882 pages
...trust, or shall make a revolt in the ship; — every such offender shall be deemed, taken and adjugcd to be a pirate and felon, and being thereof convicted,...apprehended, or into which he may first be brought. 10. SEc. ix. If any citizen shall commit any piracy or robbery aforesaid, or any act of hostility against... | |
| William Oldnall Russell - 1824 - 594 pages
...Wheat. 184. 201. The clause of the act of Congress of April 30, 1790, c. 36, s. 8, which provides that " the trial of crimes committed on the high seas, or...the district where the offender is apprehended, or in which he may be first brought," applies only to offences committed on the high seas, or in some... | |
| Sir John Comyns - 1824 - 840 pages
...the high seas, or in any place out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, which shall be tried in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which, he may first be brought. The act of 1790, c. 36. s. 8. does not confer on such courts, jurisdiction over a murder committed... | |
| United States. Congress - 1825 - 528 pages
...committed upon the «ea, or elsewhere within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, shall be in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may be first brought. The fourteenth section provides, That, in every case where any criminal, convicted... | |
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