Territory of Hawaii v. Ah Moon

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing between “felonies on the high seas” and “offences against the law of nations,” and observing that neither category was well defined at the founding
• illustrating the specificity with which the law of nations defined piracy
• illustrating the specificity with which the law of nations defined piracy
• the crime of piracy is defined by the law of nations with reasonable certainty
• “The common law, too, recognises and punishes piracy as an of-fence, not against its own municipal code, but as an offence against the law of nations, (which is part of the common law,
• acknowledging the “indeterminate” definition of felony under the Felonies Clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).