Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. February Term, 1816[-January Term, 1827], Band 5R. Donaldson, 1820 |
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... ship the Benjamin Rush , on a seaman belonging to the said ship , whereof the defendant was master , in the river Tigris , in the empire of China , off Wam- poa , and about 100 yards from the shore , in four and a half fathoms water ...
... ship the Benjamin Rush , on a seaman belonging to the said ship , whereof the defendant was master , in the river Tigris , in the empire of China , off Wam- poa , and about 100 yards from the shore , in four and a half fathoms water ...
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... ship or other vessel , shall piratically and feloniously run away with such ship or vessel , or any goods or merchandize , to the value of fifty dollars , or yield up such ship or vessel voluntari- ly to any pirate ; or if any seaman ...
... ship or other vessel , shall piratically and feloniously run away with such ship or vessel , or any goods or merchandize , to the value of fifty dollars , or yield up such ship or vessel voluntari- ly to any pirate ; or if any seaman ...
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... ship or other vessel , or endeavour to make revolt in such ship ; such person or persons , so offending , and being thereof convicted , shall be imprisoned , not exceeding three years , and fined , not exceeding one thousand dollars . a ...
... ship or other vessel , or endeavour to make revolt in such ship ; such person or persons , so offending , and being thereof convicted , shall be imprisoned , not exceeding three years , and fined , not exceeding one thousand dollars . a ...
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... ship or vessel in which the offence was committed , makes no difference in this case . A public armed vessel is a part of the national sovereign force , cloth- ed with the sovereign character , and wherever she goes entitled to immunity ...
... ship or vessel in which the offence was committed , makes no difference in this case . A public armed vessel is a part of the national sovereign force , cloth- ed with the sovereign character , and wherever she goes entitled to immunity ...
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... ship , private as well as public , is there upon the territory of her sovereign ; and amenable to no laws , but the laws of her sovereign , and the law of nations . It is from this principle that every nation derives its juris- diction ...
... ship , private as well as public , is there upon the territory of her sovereign ; and amenable to no laws , but the laws of her sovereign , and the law of nations . It is from this principle that every nation derives its juris- diction ...
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Seite 93 - The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.
Seite 416 - Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a day on which the electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution...
Seite 24 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Seite 74 - That, though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature.
Seite 94 - The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest.
Seite 113 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen...
Seite 94 - To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle that a case which is within the reason or mischief of a statute is within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated in the statute because it is of equal atrocity, or of a kindred character with those which are enumerated.
Seite 224 - ... children and heirs" just referred to. By an act of the congress of Texas, passed January 28, 1840, it was provided as follows: "In making title to land by descent it shall be no bar to a party that any ancestor through whom he derives his descent from the intestate is or hath been an alien...
Seite 322 - Smith, cashier of the office of discount and deposit of the Bank of the United States at Washington, to be paid in liquidation of a balance due from the said Mechanics...
Seite 55 - That the militia, when called into the actual service of the United States, shall be subject to the same Rules and Articles of War as the regular troops of the United States.