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[CITE: 10USC7681]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                           CHAPTER 655--PRIZE
 
Sec. 7681. Reciprocal privileges to cobelligerent

    (a) A cobelligerent of the United States that consents to the 
exercise of jurisdiction conferred by section 7652(a) of this title with 
respect to any prize of the United States brought into the territorial 
waters of the cobelligerent or appropriated for the use of the United 
States within those territorial waters shall be given, upon proclamation 
by the President of the United States, like privileges with respect to 
any prize captured under the authority of that cobelligerent and brought 
into the territorial waters of the United States or appropriated for the 
use of the cobelligerent within the territorial waters of the United 
States.
    (b) Reciprocal recognition shall be given to the jurisdiction 
acquired by courts of a cobelligerent under this section and full faith 
and credit shall be given to all proceedings had or judgments rendered 
in the exercise of that jurisdiction.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 483.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7681..................................  34 U.S.C. 1165.                      Au
g. 18, 1942, ch. 553, Sec.  7, 56
                                                                              S
tat. 747.
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    The words ``taking or'' before ``appropriation'' and the words 
``taken or'' before ``appropriated'' are omitted as surplusage.


                          Reciprocal Privileges

    The Governments listed below are accorded like privileges with 
respect to prizes captured under authority of the said Governments and 
brought into the territorial waters of the United States or taken or 
appropriated in the territorial waters of the United States for the use 
of the said Governments, namely: Australia, Proc. No. 2617, Aug. 16, 
1944, 9 F.R. 9969; Canada, Proc. No. 2594, Sept. 27, 1943, 8 F.R. 13217; 
India, Proc. No. 2601, Dec. 6, 1943, 8 F.R. 16351; New Zealand, Proc. 
No. 2582, Apr. 2, 1943, 8 F.R. 4275; United Kingdom, Proc. No. 2575, 
Feb. 2, 1944, 8 F.R. 1429.
