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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateering — its history, law, and Usage. (search)
ding the warrant of their commission, if no piratical intention can be proved, they are still held amenable to, and punished only by, the State from which their commission was issued; but if acts are committed which by treaty stipulations or international law are deemed piratical, the vessel loses its national character, and becomes amenable to the tribunals competent to decide upon this heinous offence. Sir. Leoline Jenkins, in his charge at the Admiralty Sessions, at the Old Bailey, in 1668, says: "A robbery, when 'tis committed on land, does imply three things: 1st. That there be a violent assault. 2d. That a man's goods be actually taken from his person or possession. 3d. That he who is despoiled be put in fear thereby. When this is done upon the sea; one or more persons enter on board a ship with force and arms, and those in the ship have their ship carried away by violence, or their goods taken away out of their possession, and are put in affright by the assault,