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[CITE: 33USC384]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
          CHAPTER 7--REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY
 
Sec. 384. Condemnation of piratical vessels

    Whenever any vessel, which shall have been built, purchased, fitted 
out in whole or in part, or held for the purpose of being employed in 
the commission of any piratical aggression, search, restraint, 
depredation, or seizure, or in the commission of any other act of piracy 
as defined by the law of nations, or from which any piratical 
aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or seizure shall have been 
first attempted or made, is captured and brought into or captured in any 
port of the United States, the same shall be adjudged and condemned to 
their use, and that of the captors after due process and trial in any 
court having admiralty jurisdiction, and which shall be holden for the 
district into which such captured vessel shall be brought; and the same 
court shall thereupon order a sale and distribution thereof accordingly, 
and at its discretion.

(R.S. Sec. 4296.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 4296 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, Sec. 4, 3 
Stat. 513; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721; Aug. 5, 1861, ch. 48, 
Sec. 1, 12 Stat. 314.
