have ho
Minion.
Sty the Law of Nations Pirates "nationality" ("See / Atolens diplomatic de la Mer" 285) and although the rule is "Terra domining finitur ubi finitur that is, within cannon shot of the
armorum vis"
"shore / Reg. 1. Cunningham Bell
C. C. f. 72) it is laid down in Archboll Aim. Practice p. 360 on the authority of a Mannscript an (Reg. v. Jamot), that if a robbery be committed in creeks, harbours, forts He in Foreign Countries the court of 6. Admiralty has indiscutably, durisdiction of it and ench
Offence
215
is consequently firsey? And in P. v. Allen Mos. C. C. 494 it was held that a Robbery in a British Phip at Whamton in the Canton Ativer
was
within the admiralty Jurisdiction it being a place "where great Ships go!= It would seem that Evidence
of the offence being committed within armirally Jurisdiction is
b
sufficient
the necessary allegation
support the
in an indictment for Piracy, that it was committed on the "high Seas" and the above cases are cited in sustat
of
that position not only in archbold but in the Valuable Vition of Pussell on Crimes recently published by Mr. Greaves