33 U.S.C. § 382 — Seizure of piratical vessels generally

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This law lets the President order U.S. armed ships to capture pirate vessels and bring them to a U.S. port. It covers any armed ship, or ship with an armed crew, that has attacked, searched, or seized a U.S. vessel or citizen, or any other vessel. It also allows recapturing any U.S. ship taken by pirates on the high seas.

The President can order the commanders of U.S. government armed ships to subdue, seize, capture, and bring into any U.S. port any armed vessel or boat, or any vessel or boat whose crew is armed, if that vessel has tried or carried out any pirate-style attack, search, restraint, plundering, or seizure — whether against a U.S. vessel, a U.S. citizen, or any other vessel. The President can also order those commanders to recapture any U.S. vessel, or vessel belonging to U.S. citizens, that pirates have unlawfully seized on the high seas.

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The President is authorized to instruct the commanders of the public armed vessels of the United States to subdue, seize, take, and send into any port of the United States, any armed vessel or boat, or any vessel or boat, the crew whereof shall be armed, and which shall have attempted or committed any piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or seizure, upon any vessel of the United States, or of the citizens thereof, or upon any other vessel; and also to retake any vessel of the United States, or its citizens, which may have been unlawfully captured upon the high seas.

Source credit: (R.S. § 4294.)

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