18 USC § 1661 - Robbery ashore

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s1661"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "18 USC § 1661 - Robbery ashore"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "1661"
section_name: "Robbery ashore"
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"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 775.)"
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# § 1661. Robbery ashore

Whoever, being engaged in any piratical cruise or enterprise, or being of the crew of any piratical vessel, lands from such vessel and commits robbery on shore, is a pirate, and shall be imprisoned for life.

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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., § 493 (, ).

Transposition of several words was made.