18 USC § 1660 - Receipt of pirate property

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s1660"
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title: "18 USC § 1660 - Receipt of pirate property"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "1660"
section_name: "Receipt of pirate property"
chapter_number: 81
chapter_name: "PIRACY AND PRIVATEERING"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "CRIMES"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 775.)"
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# § 1660. Receipt of pirate property

Whoever, without lawful authority, receives or takes into custody any vessel, goods, or other property, feloniously taken by any robber or pirate against the laws of the United States, knowing the same to have been feloniously taken, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 775.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 552 (, ).

Provision relating to concealment of pirate and words “is an accessory after the fact to such robbery or piracy” were omitted in view of definitive .