CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1651                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 81 - PIRACY AND PRIVATEERING

HEAD

    Sec. 1651. Piracy under law of nations

STATUTE

      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

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 774.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 481 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 290, 35 Stat. 1145).