Statute · United States Code
18 U.S.C. § 1661 — Robbery ashore
18 U.S.C. § 1661
- Type
- Statute
- Source
- United States Code
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 2025-01-06
- Topic
- estate-planning
Whoever, being engaged in any piratical cruise or enterprise, or being of the crew of any piratical vessel, lands from such vessel and commits robbery on shore, is a pirate, and shall be imprisoned for life.
Citator
18 U.S.C. § 1661 — Robbery ashore is in force in the current edition of the Code, and nothing recorded condemns it.
Whoever, being engaged in any piratical cruise or enterprise, or being of the crew of any piratical vessel, lands from such vessel and commits robbery on shore, is a pirate, and shall be imprisoned for life.