{"data":{"id":"us/18-u.s.c.-1651","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"18 U.S.C. § 1651","heading":"Piracy under law of nations","body":"Whoever, on the high seas, commits the crime of piracy as defined by the law of nations, and is afterwards brought into or found in the United States, shall be imprisoned for life.","path":["Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","CHAPTER 81—PIRACY AND PRIVATEERING"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc18@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:56:53Z","sha256":"6c65c076dd19138dd991a8143f12acc1bd9e43f07a051ccad5e5537087f971f2","source_id":"us","stale":true,"prev":"us/18-u.s.c.-1623","next":"us/18-u.s.c.-1652"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}