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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

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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