 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 800 pages
...carry into effect the general law of nations on the same subject in a just and appropriate manner. Where the act. uses the word "piratical," it does...public authority or sovereign power. In short, it means that the act belongs to the class of offences which pirates are in the habit of perpetrating, whether... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...specified in the act of congress. Ibid. 56. Where the act uses the word " piratical," it does so in its general sense, importing that the aggression is unauthorized...and criminal in its commission, and utterly without sanction from any public authority or sovereign power. The act intends to punish any aggression, although,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1240 pages
...carry into effect the general law of nations on the same subject in a just and appropriate manner. Where the act uses the word " piratical," it does...sanction from, any public authority or sovereign power. ID short, it means that the act belongs to the class of offenses which pirates are in the habit of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1156 pages
...205. ยง 5C5. Any aggression of an armed ship which is unauthorized in its character, wanton and cruel in its commission, and utterly without any sanction from any public authority or sovereign power, whether done animo furandi or lueri causa or not, is piracy, and subjects the vessel to forfeiture... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1888 - 764 pages
...the act of March 3, 1839, for the punishment of " piratical aggressions." " Where," said Story, J., " the act uses the word ' piratical ' it does so in...commission, and utterly without any sanction from any public anthority or sovereign power. In short, it means that the act belongs to the class of offences which... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 762 pages
...the act of March 3, 1839, for the punishment of " piratical aggressions." " Where," said Story, J., " the act uses the word ' piratical ' it does so in...public authority or sovereign power. In short, it means that the act belongs to the class of offences which pirates are in the habit of perpetrating, whether... | |
 | Law - 1904 - 1004 pages
...the condemnation of any vessel which shall have attempted any piratical aggression, is an aggression unauthorized by the law of nations, hostile in its...public authority or sovereign power. In short, it means the act belonging to the class of offenses which pirates are in the habit of perpetrating, whether... | |
 | William Angus Sutherland - Constitutional law - 1904 - 1008 pages
...the sea, animus furandi, is piracy.9 The word "piratical" in the act of 1819 imports an aggression unauthorized by the law of nations, hostile in its...character, wanton and criminal in its commission, and without sanction from any foreign power.10 Thus maritime warfare of unrecognized rebels 1 United States... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1184 pages
...carry into effect the general law of nations on the same subject in a just and appropriate manner. Where the act uses the word "piratical." it does so...public authority or sovereign power. In short, it means that the act belongs to the class of offenses which pirate.s are in the habit of perpetrating, whether... | |
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piratical," it does so in a general sense ; importing that the aggression is unauthorized by the law of nations, hostile in its character, wanton and criminal in its commission, and utterly without any sanction from any public authority or sovereign power.... 
