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Oppenheim "Internatial Law", Fourth
adition, Volume I, p.500.
"If a definition is
"deaired which really covers all such acts as
"are in practice treated as piratical, piracy
"must be defined as every ansuthorised not of
"violence a ainet persone or goods, aczeitted
on the open cea sither by a private Vassel
"against another vessel og by the sutinous crew
"of passengers aculat their own vessel."
Hall "Interna: ionul lav wighth raition,
p.330. "If the crew of a ship takes possession
"of it after confining or murdering the captain,
"legitimate authority has disappeur d for the
"moment, and it is uncertain for how long it may
"be kept out.
Kenoefv.
ery nation may seize and
"panish a pirate." p.314: "If the foregoing
"rem rks are well founded, piracy may be said
“to consist in aste of violence done upon the
97 ocean
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by a body of men acting inde-
pendently of any politically organised society,
The various sote which are recognised or
alleged
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