§ 384. — Condemnation of piratical vessels.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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.
