 | William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...30, 1790. (Vol. I. p. 100.) Î. SECT. I. If any person or persons, owing allegiance to the unit; i! states of America, shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to úeir enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the united states or elsewhere, and shall be thereof... | |
 | John Wesley Monette - America - 1846 - 634 pages
...await the parties concerned, I do now make it known that the law of the United States declares, " that if any person, or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war againit them, or shatt adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States,... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...entitled " An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," provides, " § 1. That if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levywar against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United... | |
 | John Wesley Monette - America - 1846 - 626 pages
...await the parties concerned, I do now make it known that the law of the United States declares, " that if any person, or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, fl"'1* levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemia, giving them aid and conofo" within the... | |
 | Benjamin Chaplin Pressley - Constables - 1848 - 552 pages
...during the life of the person attainted. Under which power it was enacted, 1st SLUS, 83, sec. 1st, that if any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war igainst them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States,... | |
 | John Wesley Monette - America - 1848 - 642 pages
...await the parties concerned, I do now make it known that the law of the United States declares, " that if any person, or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy tear against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United... | |
 | John Wesley Monette - America - 1848 - 628 pages
...await the parties concerned, I do now make it known that the law of the United States declares, " that if any person, or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall I"-// war against them, or tkall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Criminal procedure - 1849 - 728 pages
...appears that the common law is unaltcied as regards the individual states; Davis' Va. Ciim. Law 38. (c) " If any person or persons, owing allegiance to the...United States of America, shall levy war against them," &c., "he shall," &c.; act of April 3Ulh, 1790, в. 1. Under this section the averment in the text is... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 656 pages
...war against this country, would seem to bring himself within the act of Congress which declares that, if any person or persons owing allegiance to the United...and comfort, within the United States or elsewhere, he or they shall be adjudged guilty of treason. And the reason is plain, since his allegiance in such... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1852 - 772 pages
...first section. The words of this member of the bill are as follow : Be it enacted, <Sfc., That if any persons owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war against them, by assembling themselves together with, intent forcibly to overturn or change the Government of the... | |
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Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason. 
