{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1652","title_num":"18","num":"§ 1652.","heading":"Citizens as pirates","status":null,"guid":"idbd133131-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 774.)","seq_in_title":597,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch81","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch81","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 81—","heading":"PIRACY AND PRIVATEERING","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id83fdb192-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s1652\"><num value=\"1652\">§ 1652.</num><heading> Citizens as pirates</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whoever, being a citizen of the United States, commits any murder or robbery, or any act of hostility against the United States, or against any citizen thereof, on the high seas, under color of any commission from any foreign prince, or state, or on pretense of authority from any person, is a pirate, and shall be imprisoned for life.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id83fdb193-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/774\">62 Stat. 774</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id83fdb194-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id83fdb195-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 495 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1909-03-04/ch321/s304\">Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 304</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/35/1147\">35 Stat. 1147</ref>).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Words “Notwithstanding the pretense of such authority,” were omitted as surplusage.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"113-47","currency_date":"2013-10-31","congress":113,"law_num":47,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":6,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","31"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}