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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 152
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 10

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1832 - 656 pages
...importance, for the purpose of giving jurisdiction in cases of piracy, on whom or where a piratical offence is committed. A pirate, who is one by the law of nations,...is reputed to be out of the protection of all laws. Cut if the statute of any government declares an offence, committed on board one of their own vessels,...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1

James Kent - 1832 - 590 pages
...no importance, for the purpose of giving jurisdiction, on whom or where a piratical offence has been committed. A pirate, who is one by the law of nations,...may be tried and punished in any country where he ma}' be found, for he is reputed to be out of the protection of all laws and privileges. b The statute...
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Trial of the Twelve Spanish Pirates of the Schooner Panda, a Guinea Slaver ...

1834 - 60 pages
...importance, for the purpose of giving jurisdiction in cases of piracy, on whom or where a piratical offence is committed. A pirate who is one by the law of nations...tried and punished in any country where he may be (bund, for he is reputed to be out The Panda standing through tlie Bahama Channel. of the protection...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 10

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 618 pages
...importance, for the purpose of giving jurisdiction in cases of piracy, on whom or where a piratical offence is committed. A pirate, who is one by the law of nations, may be tried aml punished in any country where he may be found ; for he is reputed to be out of the protection of...
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United States Criminal History: Being a True Account of the Most Horrid ...

1836 - 564 pages
...importance, for the purpose, of giving jurisdiction in cases, of piracy, on whom or where a piratical offence is committed. A pirate who is one by the law of nations...is reputed to be out of the protection of all laws. Thus if the prisoners were convicted of the crime for which they are now indicted in their own country,...
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Jurist: Containing Reports of All Cases Determined in Law and in ..., Part 1

1866 - 1074 pages
...giving jurisdiction, on whom or where the piratical offence has been committed. The pirate is one who, by the law of nations, may be tried and punished in any country in which he is found. Statutes in one country may declare an offence committed on board of one of its...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 13

1845 - 604 pages
...importance, for the purpose of giving jurisdiction, on whom, or where a piratical offence has been committed. A pirate, who is one by the law of nations, may be tried and punished by any country where he may be found. Piracy, under the law of nations, is an offence against all nations,...
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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Volume 13

Freeman Hunt - 1845 - 624 pages
...importance, for the purpose of giving jurisdiction, on whom, or where a piratical ofTence has been committed. A pirate, who is one by the law of nations, may be tried and punished by any country where he may be found. Piracy, under the law of nations, is an offence against all nations,...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 13

1845 - 604 pages
...importance, for the purpose of giving jurisdiction, on whom, or where a piratical offence has been committed. A pirate, who is one by the law of nations, may be tried and punished by any country where he may be found. Piracy, under the law of nations, is an offence against all nations,...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 10

Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 pages
...importance, for the purpose of giving jurisdiction in cases of piracy, on whom or where a piratical offence is committed. A pirate, who is one by the law of nations,...laws. But if the statute of any government declares an oifence, committed on board one of their own vessels, to be piracy, such an offence will be punishable...
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