{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1653","title_num":"18","num":"§ 1653.","heading":"Aliens as pirates","status":null,"guid":"idbd135745-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 774.)","seq_in_title":598,"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=\"id83fdb196-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s1653\"><num value=\"1653\">§ 1653.</num><heading> Aliens as pirates</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whoever, being a citizen or subject of any foreign state, is found and taken on the sea making war upon the United States, or cruising against the vessels and property thereof, or of the citizens of the same, contrary to the provisions of any treaty existing between the United States and the state of which the offender is a citizen or subject, when by such treaty such acts are declared to be piracy, is a pirate, and shall be imprisoned for life.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id83fdb197-4631-11e3-82e4-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=\"id83fdb198-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id83fdb199-4631-11e3-82e4-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., § 496 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1909-03-04/ch321/s305\">Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 305</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/35/1147\">35 Stat. 1147</ref>.)</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Minor change was made in phraseology.</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}