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States shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally...

A Brief View of the Constitution of the United States: Addressed to the Law ... - Page 55
by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 106 pages
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1979 - 790 pages

...judicial power of the federal government extended. The confederation gave to Congress the power "of establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures." This power was uniformly construed to authorize these courts to receive appeals from the sentences...

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North Dakota Blue Book

North Dakota - 1981 - 426 pages

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The Encyclopedia Americana, Volumes 1-30

Bernard S. Cayne - Reference - 1981 - 776 pages

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 6

Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 612 pages

...piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing Piqua Bank r. Knoup, Treasurer. courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures." The judicial power here given over piracies and felonies upon the high seas, is " sole and exclusive."...

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