                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                   CHAPTER 81--PIRACY AND PRIVATEERING
 
Sec. 1660. Receipt of pirate property

    Whoever, without lawful authority, receives or takes into custody 
any vessel, goods, or other property, feloniously taken by any robber or 
pirate against the laws of the United States, knowing the same to have 
been feloniously taken, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 775.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 552 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 334, 35 Stat. 1152).
    Provision relating to concealment of pirate and words ``is an 
accessory after the fact to such robbery or piracy'' were omitted in 
view of definitive section 3 of this title.
