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2025 Delaware Code
Title 23 - Navigation and Waters
Chapter 13. VESSEL PROPERTY
§ 1302. Forcible, fraudulent or secret taking of vessel; penalty.
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§ 1302. Forcible, fraudulent or secret taking of vessel; penalty.
Whoever forcibly, fraudulently or secretly takes or attempts to take and remove any vessel from any harbor, river, creek or sound within this State, on any pretense whatever, shall be fined not more than $500, and shall restore to the owners the vessel and cargo or the full value thereof.
Code 1852, § 1239; Code 1915, § 2990; Code 1935, § 3483; 23 Del. C. 1953, § 1302;
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