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"alleged to be piratical may be classed as
*1. Robbery or attempt at robbery of a
"Yessel, by force or intimidation, either
"by way of attack from without or by way of
"revolt of the erew and conversion of the
"Yessel and cargo to their own use.
Wheaton "International Law" eighth edition,
p.195: "The crimes of murder and robbery,
"committed by foreigners on board of a
"foreign vessel, on the high seas, are not
"justiciable in the tribunals of another country
"than that to which the vessel belongs; but if
comitted on board of a vessel not at the time
"belonging, in feet as well as right, to any
"foreign power or its subjects, but in
"possession of a crew acting in defiance of all
*law, and soknowledging obedience to no flag
"whatsoever these cines may be punished as
"piracy under the law of nations, in the cours
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