United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
AppendixAA 50a. WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE |
Level TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT OF 1917 |
CompiledAct ACT OCT. 6, 1917, CH. 106, 40 STAT. 411 |
§ 18. Jurisdiction of courts of Philippines and Canal Zone of offenses
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The several courts of first instance in the Philippine Islands and the district court of the Canal Zone shall have jurisdiction of offenses under this Act [sections 1 to 6, 7 to 39, and 41 to 44 of this Appendix] committed within their respective districts, and concurrent jurisdiction with the district courts of the United States of offenses under this Act [said sections] committed upon the high seas and of conspiracies to commit such offenses as defined by section thirty-seven of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, and the provisions of such section for the purpose of this Act [said sections] are extended to the Philippine Islands and to the Canal Zone.
References In Text
Section thirty-seven of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, referred to in text, enacted section 88 of former Title 18, Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure, and was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 21, 62 Stat. 862, and reenacted as section 371 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
Miscellaneous
For termination of the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone at end of the “transition period”, being the 30-month period beginning
Proc. No. 2695, eff.