United States Court For China

Author : United States. Congress. House. Affairs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333965167
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book United States Court for China written by United States. Congress. House. Affairs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from United States Court for China: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-Fifth Congress, First Session, on H. R, 4281 Judge lobingier. Well, it is pretty long, and there are a good many citations of authorities. I can state in a word the effect of the decision, however. Mr. Rogers. Have you a summary of the case which could go in the record? Judge lobingier. I haven't it written out, but I think I can state one that will cover the point in the case. The question there arose as to what law the defendant should be prosecuted under. He was prosecuted for the crime of false pretenses under the common law. The court of appeals held that he was not guilty under the common law, but the effect of the decision is that, applying a section of the criminal code which Congress had enacted for Alaska, and which was, therefore, one of the laws of the United States within its interpretation. The defendant was amenable. Had it not been for that, there would have been a clear miscarriage of justice. Subsequently the United States Supreme Court passed on the question of what is meant by the phrase statute of the United States, occurring in another act. You gentlemen are doubtless familiar with that phrase in the court of appeals act which provides for appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States in certain cases where a statute of the United States is involved. This case came up from the Philippines, where the question in volved the Philippine tariff law, a special act of Congress not passed for the United States, but for the Philippines, and the Supreme Court there holds that the Philippine tariff act, although applicable only to that locality and not to the whole country, is a law of the United States (gsell Insular Collector, 239 U. S. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.