Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction and Its Effect on American CitizensU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - 45 páginas |
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... criminal jurisdiction . " I am not aware of any international law book that had tried ... acts , on which some foreign countries specially legislated against ... committed abroad . The urgent necessity of such a search the following lines ...
... criminal jurisdiction . " I am not aware of any international law book that had tried ... acts , on which some foreign countries specially legislated against ... committed abroad . The urgent necessity of such a search the following lines ...
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... acts committed in violation of our laws , denies the right of foreign jurisdiction in general , admitting it only where said acts , though connected with or commenced in this country , take effect in the foreign country . With other ...
... acts committed in violation of our laws , denies the right of foreign jurisdiction in general , admitting it only where said acts , though connected with or commenced in this country , take effect in the foreign country . With other ...
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... acts committed in this country in violation of our laws . In denying , by very strong reasons , to any sover- eign ... acts not punishable by our laws . The Presi- dent did not need expressly to declare it , because it is held a general ...
... acts committed in this country in violation of our laws . In denying , by very strong reasons , to any sover- eign ... acts not punishable by our laws . The Presi- dent did not need expressly to declare it , because it is held a general ...
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... acts destroying the safety of mankind , and as it is rather impossible to watch over the whole world , we satisfy ourselves with legislating on crimes committed on our soil . And so all other nations do . Hence the general understanding ...
... acts destroying the safety of mankind , and as it is rather impossible to watch over the whole world , we satisfy ourselves with legislating on crimes committed on our soil . And so all other nations do . Hence the general understanding ...
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... acts committed within the borders of the state . If self - defense be not disallowed at all , we shall have the right to defend our safety against whatever offender from whatever direction . 14 EXTRATERRITORIAL CRIMINAL JURISDICTION .
... acts committed within the borders of the state . If self - defense be not disallowed at all , we shall have the right to defend our safety against whatever offender from whatever direction . 14 EXTRATERRITORIAL CRIMINAL JURISDICTION .
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Página 31 - Every person, who, within the limits of the United States, fits out and arms, or attempts to fit out and arm, or procures to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly is concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming, of any vessel, with intent that such vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, to cruise or commit hostilities against the...
Página 23 - When committed upon the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State...
Página 31 - Every person, who, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begins or sets on foot, or provides, or prepares the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than three years.
Página 23 - That if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, and shall be thereof convicted, on confession in open court...
Página 31 - ... fined not more than ten thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than ten years; and the trial for such offense, if committed without the limits of the United States, shall be in the district in which the offender shall be apprehended or first brought.
Página 7 - Mexico, induced me to order a special investigation of the case, pending which Mr. Cutting was released. The incident has, however, disclosed a claim of jurisdiction by Mexico novel in our history, whereby any offense committed anywhere by a foreigner, penal in the place of its commission, and of which a Mexican is the object, may, if the offender be found in Mexico, be there tried and punished in conformity with Mexican laws. This jurisdiction was sustained by the courts of Mexico in the Cutting...
Página 7 - ... or commenced outside of it; but the right is denied of any foreign sovereign to punish a citizen of the United States for an offense consummated on our soil in violation of our laws, even though the offense be against a subject or citizen of such sovereign. The Mexican statute in question makes the claim broadly, and the principle, if conceded, would create a dual responsibility in the citizen and lead to inextricable confusion, destructive of that certainty in the law which is an essential of...
Página 7 - The admission of such a pretension would be attended with serious results, invasive of the jurisdiction of this Government, and highly dangerous to our citizens in foreign lands; therefore I have denied it, and protested against its attempted exercise, as unwarranted by the principles of law and international usages. A sovereign has jurisdiction of offenses which take effect within his territory, although concocted...
Página 21 - Whatever the degree to which extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction may have been formerly allowed by consent and reciprocal agreement "among certain of the European states, no such doctrine or practice was ever known to the laws of this country or of that from which our institutions have mainly been derived.