CO129-515-1 Piracy- legal proceedings arising from sinking of S.S. 'IRENE' 18-1-1929 - 6-9-1929 — Page 31

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Oppenheim "International law", Fourth

Edition, Volume I, p.500.

a definition ie

"desired which really covers all such acts as

"are in practice treated as piratical, piracy

"must be defined as every anauthorised set of

"violence against persons or goods, committed

son the open sea either by a private vessel

"against another vessel or by the mutinous crew

or passengeza exainst their own vessel."

p.310.

Hall "Int rnational Law" Eighth Edition,

"If the zow of a ship takes possession

"of it after confining or murdering the captain,

"legitimate authority has disapeared for the

"moment, and it is undertain for how long it may

"be kept out.

Henoe every nution may seize and

"panish a pirate." p.314: "If the foregoing

"remarks are well founded, piracy may be said

*to consist in acts of violence done upon the

"ocean

by a body of men acting inde-

*pendently of any pektically organised society.

"he varioua acts which are recognised or

"alleged

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