THE UNITED STATES
v.
JAMES PAUL

U.S. | 1832-01-01
6 Pet. 141 Supreme Court of the United States (1832) Negative Treatment
Also reported at: 8 L. Ed. 348 · SCDB 1832-035 · 1832 U.S. LEXIS 462
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Opinion of the Court
Mr Chief Justice Marshall

Mr Chief Justice Marshall stated it to be the opinion of the court, that the third section of the act of congress, entitled “ án act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against .the" United States, and for other purposes,” passed March .3, 1825, is to be limited to the laws of the several states in force at the time of its enactment. This ,'was ordered to be certified^ to the circuit court for the southern district of New York.'.

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    …nd therefore if it were necessary, the words “rights and remedies under the workmen’s compensation law of any State” should be taken to refer solely to laws existing at the time, as it certainly does at least include them. See United States v. Paul, 6 Pet. 141. Taking the act as so limited it is to be read as if it set out at length certain rules for New York, certain others more or less different -for California, and so on. So construed the single, objection that I have heard to the law is that it makes…
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    …of any assimilated laws. It also made no specific reference to new offenses that might be added by the State after the enactment of the Assimilative Crimes Act. In 1831, there was certified by a Circuit Court to this Court in United States v. Paul, 6 Pet. 141, the concrete question whether, under the Assimilative Crimes Act of 1825, a statute enacted in 1829 by the State of New York, defining a new offense to be known as burglary in the third degree, was applicable to the federal enclave at West Point. T…
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