Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. February Term, 1816[-January Term, 1827], Volume 5R. Donaldson, 1820 |
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Halaman 79
... piracy or robbery , aforesaid , or any act of hostility against the United States , or any citizen thereof , upon the high seas , under colour of any commission from any foreign prince V. Wiltberger . .1820 . U. States V. Wiltberger ...
... piracy or robbery , aforesaid , or any act of hostility against the United States , or any citizen thereof , upon the high seas , under colour of any commission from any foreign prince V. Wiltberger . .1820 . U. States V. Wiltberger ...
Halaman 80
... piracy aforesaid , upon the high seas , which shall affect the life of such person , and such person or persons shall thereupon do or com- mit any such piracy or robbery , then all and every such person , so as aforesaid aiding ...
... piracy aforesaid , upon the high seas , which shall affect the life of such person , and such person or persons shall thereupon do or com- mit any such piracy or robbery , then all and every such person , so as aforesaid aiding ...
Halaman 81
... piracy or robbery ; or if any seaman shall confine the master of any 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 ...
... piracy or robbery ; or if any seaman shall confine the master of any 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 ...
Halaman 93
... piracy , aforesaid , upon the seas , which shall affect the life of such person , shall , " & c . Here Con- gress cannot have intended to exempt from punish- ment those persons who shall be accessaries before the fact to a murder or ...
... piracy , aforesaid , upon the seas , which shall affect the life of such person , shall , " & c . Here Con- gress cannot have intended to exempt from punish- ment those persons who shall be accessaries before the fact to a murder or ...
Halaman 100
... piracy or robbery , to the 8th ; and its whole language shows that its sole object is to render a citizen who offends against the United States or their citizens , under colour of a foreign commission , punishable in the same degree as ...
... piracy or robbery , to the 8th ; and its whole language shows that its sole object is to render a citizen who offends against the United States or their citizens , under colour of a foreign commission , punishable in the same degree as ...
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Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 24 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.