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18 U.S.C. § 1654 — Arming or serving on privateers
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Whoever, being a citizen of the United States, without the limits thereof, fits out and arms, or attempts to fit out and arm or is concerned in furnishing, fitting out, or arming any private vessel of war or privateer, with intent that such vessel shall be employed to cruise or commit hostilities upon the citizens of the United States or their property; or
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Whoever, being a citizen of the United States, without the limits thereof, fits out and arms, or attempts to fit out and arm or is concerned in furnishing, fitting out, or arming any private vessel of war or privateer, with intent that such vessel shall be employed to cruise or commit hostilities upon the citizens of the United States or their property; or
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**(a)** Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.
**(b)** Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.
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The trial of all offenses begun or committed upon the high seas, or elsewhere out of the jurisdiction of any particular State or district, shall be in the district in which the offender, or any one of two or more joint offenders, is arrested or is first brought; but if such offender or offenders are not so arrested or brought into any district, an indictment or information may be filed in the district of the last known residence of the offender or of any one of two or more joint offenders, or if no such residence is known the indictment or information may be filed in the District of Columbia.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1651
shall bar prosecution under this section if, at
the time the admission is made, the declaration
has not substantially affected the proceeding, or
it has not become manifest that such falsity has
been or will be exposed.
(e) Proof beyond a reasonable doubt under this
section is sufficient for conviction. It shall not
be necessary that such proof be made by any
particular number of witnesses or by documen-
tary or other type of evidence.
(Added Pub. L. 91–452, title IV, § 401(a), Oct. 15,
1970, 84 Stat. 932; amended Pub. L. 94–550, § 6,
Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2535; Pub. L. 103–322, title
XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat.
2147; Pub. L. 118–49, § 13(d), Apr. 20, 2024, 138 Stat.
882.)
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AMENDMENTS
2024—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 118–49 inserted ‘‘or, if such
proceedings are before or ancillary to the Foreign In-
telligence Surveillance Court or the Foreign Intel-
ligence Surveillance Court of Review established by
section 103 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803), imprisoned not more than ten
years’’ before ‘‘, or both’’.
1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–322 substituted ‘‘fined
under this title’’ for ‘‘fined not more than $10,000’’.
1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–550 inserted ‘‘(or in any
declaration, certificate, verification, or statement
under penalty of perjury as permitted under section
1746 of title 28, United States Code)’’ after ‘‘under
oath’’.
CHAPTER 81—PIRACY AND PRIVATEERING
Sec.
1651.
Piracy under law of nations.
1652.
Citizens as pirates.
1653.
Aliens as pirates.
1654.
Arming or serving on privateers.
1655.
Assault on commander as piracy.
1656.
Conversion or surrender of vessel.
1657.
Corruption of seamen and confe
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