# § 8881. Reciprocal privileges to cobelligerent
**(a)** A cobelligerent of the United States that consents to the exercise of jurisdiction conferred by section 8852(a) of this title with respect to any prize of the United States brought into the territorial waters of the cobelligerent or appropriated for the use of the United States within those territorial waters shall be given, upon proclamation by the President of the United States, like privileges with respect to any prize captured under the authority of that cobelligerent and brought into the territorial waters of the United States or appropriated for the use of the cobelligerent within the territorial waters of the United States.
**(b)** Reciprocal recognition shall be given to the jurisdiction acquired by courts of a cobelligerent under this section and full faith and credit shall be given to all proceedings had or judgments rendered in the exercise of that jurisdiction.
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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 483, § 7681; renumbered § 8881 and amended Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, §§ 807(d)(9), 809(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1837, 1840.)
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 7681 | 34 U.S.C. 1165. | Aug. 18, 1942, ch. 553, § 7, 56 Stat. 747. |
The words “taking or” before “appropriation” and the words “taken or” before “appropriated” are omitted as surplusage.
## Editorial Notes
### Prior Provisions
Prior sections 8881 and 8882 were repealed by , , .
Section 8881, , , authorized Secretary of Air Force to retire Air Force nurses and woman medical specialists whose regular grade is below major.
Section 8882, , , authorized Secretary of Air Force to retire Air Force nurses or woman medical specialists whose regular grade is above captain.
Prior sections 8883 to 8886 were repealed by , , , effective .
Section 8883, acts , ; , , ; , , , provided that, unless retired or separated at an earlier date, each commissioned officer whose regular grade is below major general, other than a professor or the registrar of the United States Air Force Academy, be retired when he becomes 60 years of age, except as provided by . See .
Section 8884, acts , ; , , 80 Stat 1115, provided that, unless retired or separated at an earlier date, each commissioned officer whose regular grade is major general, and whose retirement under has been deferred under cl. (1) of that section, be retired when be becomes 60 years of age, except as provided by . See .
Section 8885, acts , ; , , ; , , , provided that, unless retired or separated at an earlier date or unless retained under , each commissioned officer whose regular grade is major general be retired when he becomes 62 years of age, except as provided by . See .
Section 8886, acts , ; , , ; , , , provided that, unless retired or separated at an earlier date, each commissioned officer whose regular grade is major general, and whose retirement under has been deferred under cl. (2) of that section, and each permanent professor and the registrar of the United States Air Force Academy, be retired when he becomes 64 years of age, except as provided by . See .
A prior section 8887, , , related to computation of years of service of Air Force nurses or woman medical specialists for purposes of retirement under former sections 8881 or 8882 of this title, or retirement pay under former , prior to repeal by , , .
Prior sections 8888 And 8889 were repealed by , , , effective .
Section 8888, acts , ; , , ; , , ; , , ; , , , related to computation of years of service for determining retired pay of a commissioned officer of Regular Air Force retired under former section 8883, 8884, 8885, or 8886 of this title. See .
Section 8889, , , provided that a member of Air Force retired under this chapter be entitled to retired pay computed under former chapter 871 of this title.
### Amendments
2018—, renumbered as this section.
Subsec. (a). , substituted “section 8852(a)” for “section 7652(a)”.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment
Amendment by effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .
### Reciprocal Privileges
The Governments listed below are accorded like privileges with respect to prizes captured under authority of the said Governments and brought into the territorial waters of the United States or taken or appropriated in the territorial waters of the United States for the use of the said Governments, namely: Australia, Proc. No. 2617, , 9 F.R. 9969; Canada, Proc. No. 2594, , 8 F.R. 13217; India, Proc. No. 2601, , 8 F.R. 16351; New Zealand, Proc. No. 2582, , 8 F.R. 4275; United Kingdom, Proc. No. 2575, , 8 F.R. 1429.