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§ 232.: Regulation of offenses against the law of nations.— - Christopher G. Tiedeman, A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint, vol. 2 [1900]

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A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint (St. Louis: The F.H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1900). Vol. 2.

Author: Christopher G. Tiedeman

Part of: A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint, 2 vols.

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§ 232.

Regulation of offenses against the law of nations.—

Congress is also given the power “to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.” Piracy is usually defined to be the equivalent of robbery in law, being a forcible deprivation of property upon the high seas.1 But a robbery at sea, committed in a vessel sailing under the flag of another nation and by one not a citizen of the United States, is not such a piracy as may be punished in the courts of the United States.2

[1]4 Bl. Com. 71-73; 1 Kent, 183. See United States v. Smith, 5 Wheat. 153; United States v. Brig Malek Adhel, 2 How. 210.

[2]United States v. Palmer, 3 Wheat. 610; United States v. Kessler, Baldw. 15.