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Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 7 - Regulations for the Suppression of Piracy
Sec. 382 - Seizure of piratical vessels generally
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| 33 U.S.C. § 382 (2016) |
| §382. Seizure of piratical vessels generally |
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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. |
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(R.S. §4294.) |
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CODIFICATION
R.S. §4294 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, §2, 3 Stat. 512; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721. |
| United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS |
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| Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS CHAPTER 7 - REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY Sec. 382 - Seizure of piratical vessels generally |
| section 382 |
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| January 6, 2017 |
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| 3 Stat. 512, 721 |
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