...United States." That section gives the courts of the Union cognizance of certain offenses committed on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state. 274 Whatever may be the constitutional power of Congress it is clear that this power has not...

...more extensive than that which they have actually derived from it. Section 8 of the act provides " that if any person or persons shall commit upon the...particular State, murder or robbery, or any other offense, which, if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws of the United States IK>...

...more extensive than that which they have actually derived from it. Section 8 of the act provides " that if any person or persons shall commit upon the...particular State, murder or robbery, or any other offense, which, if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws of the United States be...

...States," §8. That section gives the courts of the union cognizance of certain offenses committed on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state. Whatever may be the constitutional power of congress, it is clear that this power has not been...

...1790, which limited the punishment of certain enumerated crimes by the United States to those committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state. But I apprehend it may fairly be doubted whether the Constitution of the United States meant,...

...offense charged, for the reason that the act gives such courts cognizance only of certain offenses on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay "out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," and that the offense, having been committed in the Boston Harbor, was not out of the jurisdiction...

...pirate is hostis humani generis, and triable in any country. Beyond this, it comprehends acts "done upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." (Act of April 30, 1790, s. 8.) All such acts, committed by Americans, are of the jurisdiction...

...judgment, shows, that in order to constitute 1. — Which provides, "That If nny person or per•ons shall commit, upon the high seas, or in any river,...the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or rolihery, or any other offense, which, if committed within the body of a county, would, by the laws...

...Digs. 1907 to date, ft Rtp'r Indexes of murder, ая well ля certain other crimes, when committed "upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin,...or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." The act was remolded by the act of March 3, 1825, chap. 65, § 4, page 115, 4 Stat. at L. (US...

...the 8th section of the act of 17ПО, ch. 9, provided for the punishment of murder, etc., committed "upon the high seas, or In any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of •ny particular state," It Is not the offense committed, but the bay, etc., In which It Is committed,...