                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                   CHAPTER 81--PIRACY AND PRIVATEERING
 
Sec. 1651. Piracy under law of nations

    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.

(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).
