FEDERAL · 33 U.S.C. · Chapter 7

Condemnation of piratical vessels

33 U.S.C. § 384
Title33Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter7 — REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY

This text of 33 U.S.C. § 384 (Condemnation of piratical vessels) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
33 U.S.C. § 384.

Text

Whenever any vessel, which shall have been built, purchased, fitted out in whole or in part, or held for the purpose of being employed in the commission of any piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or seizure, or in the commission of any other act of piracy as defined by the law of nations, or from which any piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or seizure shall have been first attempted or made, is captured and brought into or captured in any port of the United States, the same shall be adjudged and condemned to their use, and that of the captors after due process and trial in any court having admiralty jurisdiction, and which shall be holden for the district into which such captured vessel shall be brought; and the same court shall thereupon order a sale a

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

Related

United States v. Said
757 F. Supp. 2d 554 (E.D. Virginia, 2010)
7 case citations

Source Credit

History

(R.S. §4296.)

Editorial Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification
R.S. §4296 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, §4, 3 Stat. 513; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721; Aug. 5, 1861, ch. 48, §1, 12 Stat. 314.

Cite This Page — Counsel Stack

Bluebook (online)
33 U.S.C. § 384, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/usc/33/384.