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18 U.S.C. § 1651 — Piracy under law of nations
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 33 words · no verdicts yet
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Whoever, on the high seas, commits the crime of piracy as defined by the law of nations, and is afterwards brought into or found in the United States, shall be imprisoned for life.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 774.)
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- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 774
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