...g the right de jure. Now the question came before the Lords of the Privy Council, and they desired to have the opinions of learned civilians, and a report was given in a very grave and curious way by Dr. Tindal , who was one of the counsel. Sir Thomas Pinfold had asserted that those persons were not pirates, and for a very strange reason — he said he argued against this being piracy, as it was imposs...