 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - 1918 - 1564 sider
...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 pirates are in the habit of perpetrating, whether... | |
 | 1925 - 1184 sider
...statute was intended to carry the rule of the law of nations into effect, and continued as follows: " 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 1180 sider
...general Jaw of nations on the same subject in a just end appropriate manner. Where the act use» tbe word "piratical," it does so in a general sense; importing...commission, and utterly without any sanction from en/ public authority or sovereign power. In short, it means that the act belongs to the class of offenses... | |
 | Yôrām Dinšṭein, Mala Tabory - 1989 - 1108 sider
...233(1844). Indeed that great admiralty jurist's words on the definition of piracy are worth quoting in full: enne that the act belongs to the class of offences which pirates are in the habit of perpetrating, whether... | |
 | Yôrām Dinšṭein, Mala Tabory - 1989 - 1108 sider
...233(1844). Indeed that great admiralty jurist's words on the definition of piracy are worth quoting in full: 'Where the act uses the word 'piratical', it does...nations, hostile in its character, wanton and criminal in hs commission, and utterly without any sanction from any public authority or sovereign power. In short,... | |
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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.... 
